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-Original Message-From: joanna bujes
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Re: RE: The American Dream
Third, I don't believe in the
brainwashing th
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36438] Re: The American Dream
how can you say that the American dream is _anything_ if you haven't defined what in heck it means?
How can you denigrate something that a lot of working people believe in (even though what it means is pretty vague) without providing any
At 04:04 PM 04/02/2003 -0800, you wrote:
how can you say that the
American dream is _anything_ if you haven't defined what in
heck it means?
How can you denigrate something that a lot of working people
believe in (even though what it means is pretty vague) without providing
any evidence or
Third, I don't believe in the
brainwashing theory of ideology, which treats people's ideas as mere
objects for manipulation. Brainwashing only works when people are under
duress and the like.
In the U.S. people are exposed to commercial messages every fifteen
minutes of their lives when they
