The Cultural Production of Ignorance Link
But then there’s ignorance custom-designed to manipulate the public. “The myth of the ‘information society’ is that we’re drowning in knowledge,” he says. “But it’s easier to propagate ignorance.”
It’s a disconcerting look at how insidious purposeful-ignorance is and how the story never really changes. My dad had a saying when I was a kid: “A lie is as good as the truth if you can get someone to believe it.” He wasn’t the greatest role model but he was pretty spot on with that one. But you can be pretty sure that anything someone makes money on is probably a lie at some level.