It's a very unusual view that equates a spontaneous shift towards vegetarianism in the face of corporate lobbying and advertising on behalf of the meat industries with an institutional refusal to question Israel's nuclear arsenal.
Except that shift isn’t spontaneous. Someone has to propose it, someone has to promote it, someone has to popularize it, etc.
Manufacturing consent isn’t by default bad. Manufacturing convent to built pubic transit, manufacturing consent to have people vaccinated, etc., in the face of other interests is still manufacturing consent.
>Except that shift isn’t spontaneous. Someone has to propose it, someone has to promote it, someone has to popularize it, etc.
The mechanism is different though. We didn't just wake up one day and start hearing multiple coherent media voices that vegetarianism is the way forward. We did have precisely that for the Iraq war.
It’s just slower. But there is an interest and there is a promoter, people selling books, talking on air, in movies, talked about by teachers, elevated by kids’s shows, etc. It’s more diffuse and immersive, thus, it’s even more effective because people rarely notice it. It has parallels to refined state propaganda.
Iraq war-like talk basically is the poorman’s version of ideal propaganda.
It's not just slower and there is no "promoter" that is filtering down news in the same way with talking points dictated to media. There is a wide variety of views being spread in a far more grass roots fashion.
"Propaganda" isn't just an attempt to convince somebody of something. Writing a book advancing a viewpoint isn't automatically propaganda.
