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"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota."
"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."
"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."
"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
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"The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual."
"Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious."
"Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others."
"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."
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