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'Our whole social system rests upon the fictitious belief that nobody is forced to do what he does, but that he likes to do. this replacement of overt by anonymous authority finds its expression in all areas of life: Force is camouflaged by consent; the consent is brought about by methods of mass suggestion.' Erich Fromm, "The Art of Being"
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Burning All Illusions
a guide to personal and political freedom
by Edwards, David
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This is a book about freedom, and above all about the idea that there is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained. What prison, after all, could be more secure than that deemed to be 'the world,' where boundaries of action and thought are assumed to define not the limits of the permissible, but the limits of the possible.
In the past we have been prisoners of tyrants and dictators, and consequently have needed to win our freedom in very concrete, physical terms. We now need to free ourselves not from a slave ship, a prison, or a concentration camp, but from many of the illusions fostered in our democratic society.
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Burning All Illusions: a guide to personal and political freedom
1996, South End Press
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"(Chapter 1 begins with a quote) 'Our whole social system rests upon the fictitious belief that nobody is forced to do what he does, but that he likes to do. this replacement of overt by anonymous authority finds its expression in all areas of life: Force is camouflaged by consent; the consent is brought about by methods of mass suggestion.' Erich Fromm, "The Art of Being""
Table of Contents
Foreword. Foreword by Jonathon Porritt
Introduction. Introduction
1. BEYOND TOTALITARIANISM: Noam Chomsky and the Propaganda Model of Media Control
Proceed with Caution! The Pitfalls of Common Sense
Tools of the Trade: Chomsky as Man of the Enlightenment
Manufacturing Consent: Media as Propaganda
Framing Conditions and 'Accidental' Necessity
The Five Reality Filters
Testing the Hypothesis
Drugs and Terror
Invisible Genocide: The Silent Death of East Timor
'It Doesn't Take a Hero!' War Crimes in the Gulf
All Aboard the Neptune Express! Chomsky as Latter-Day 'Ass'
2. EXTENDING THE SCOPE OF THE PROPAGANDA MODEL
Freedom to Conform
Success as Obedience
Who's Watching Big Brother?
Filtering the Classics
Necessary Beliefs
The Economic Expedience of Neurosis
Cure or Conformity?
The Sickness of Psychotherapy
Freudian Psychoanalysis, the Sexual Revolution, and the Propaganda Model
Limiting the Debate: Ridicule
Limiting the Debate: Silence
Limiting the Debate: The Relativity of Truth
3. KILLING THE DREAM OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH
Storms in the Propaganda Tea Cup
Clinging Religiously to Non-Belief: the Political Economy of Atheism
Security in Despair
The CFF is Dead: Long Live Religion!
Atheism as Anaesthetic: The Great 'So What!'
The Unholy Trinity: Atheism, Consumerism, and 'Progress'
'Always Winter, Never Christmas'
Milk and Sugar?
What Zarathustra Also Said
Power Religion
Experts: High Priests of Incoherence
'Wherever I Lay My Hat...' Devils on the Move
Free at Last: Again!
4. KILLING THE DREAM OF RIGHT CONDUCT
Enlightened Ethics: Why Not?
The Short Arms of Cosmic and Earthly Law
Zen and the Art of Living: A Rational Basis for Morality
Sin as Mistake
Why the Above Interpretation is Absurd
Truth and a Good Buying Environment
5. THE DESOLATED DAY-TRIPPER
The Soluble Self
'Can't Find the Wound from Where I'm Bleeding'
The Natural History of the Desolated Day-Tripper
Desolate: Meaning 'Alone'
6. BEYOND 'SUCCESS' -- TOLSTOY'S "CONFESSION"
The Self-Defined
When Life is a Lie: Tolstoy's "Confession"
When Life Comes to a Standstill
Into the Abyss
Returning to the Real World
The Reasonable Demand of Life
The Need to Know
The Demon Cities of the Underworld: Where the Jewels Glow!
7. THE WOUND OUTSIDE
Pyrrhus Recalled
The Pathology of Profit
Two Voices of Resistance
The Real Foundation of Skyscrapers
8. JOINING THE TWO WOUNDS: PERSONALIZING THE GLOBAL, GLOBALIZING THE PERSONAL
'The Wound That I Beheld Bleeding, Is Bleeding, Now, Within Me'
'Hooray for Peter Pumpkinhead!' The Task of the Hero
Shoes for the Road Less-Travelled: the Task of the Individual
Destination Unknown: The Archetypal Hero
The Call to Adventure
9. A CHEST OF TOOLS FOR INTELLECTUAL SELF-DEFENCE
Against a Sense of Hopelessness
The Limits of Freedom
Opposition to Vaccine: Inoculating the Body Politic
Specific Problems with 'False Friends'
Hate as an Obstacle to Solutions
Even Genghis Khan Thought He Was the Good Guy! Rationalisation as an Obstacle to Truth
Manufacturing Discontent: Advertising Anorexia and Bulimia
In Conclusion: A Few Last Questions
References. References
Bibliography. Bibliography
Index. Index
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index.
Published in England under title: Free to be human.
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