Necessary Illusions - Noam Chomsky

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, Noam Chomsky This book is better written than Chomsky's more famous collaboration *Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media* but it's still far too full of jargon. Despite this, it presented its arguments clearly, entertainingly (I enjoyed reading this book a lot, despite the depressing pictures it painted), and pretty much irrefutably, as far as I could judge. Reading first *Manufacturing Consent* and then this book may be as big an education for yolu as it has been for me: I see, or think I see, what goes on in the world much more clearly. *Manufacturing Consent* ...  Read the complete review