Corporations And The Other Elites example essay topic

Journal on The Manufacture of Consent In Noam Chomsky's film I have learned quite a few things about life in a democratic society. This film has made think in a three dimensional way for whom is really right, Noam Chomsky or those who he calls 'Elites'. I have come to the conclusion that Noam Chomsky is right, for his claim is very convincing which is that the media is controlled by the elites who determine what the public should know. How exactly does Chomsky prove all this to make sense? Well, he explained that the governments, corporations and the other elites manufacture the consent of the public to serve their own interests.

Chomsky explains to get the consent of the public is to by saying that some sort of thought control is what the large media groups do and this thing they do is they manufacture consent by use of propaganda. I wondered since this is a peoples country, why we let the elites tell us what we can know and not know by not even knowing the elites do this to us? Chomsky answered this to, by saying that many of the large media corporations are owned by a small group of corporations in which these elites set the agenda on what the public should know. Well how can these major corporations get away with this? Well, Chomsky says that the elites are about 20% of the population and these 20% are the ones usually contributing to running these corporations and or educating new elites as the old elites pass on and the other 80% of the populations are just people who are non-educated to the collegiate level and they dont really rely on anybody else except themselves so they don't vote or think a lot about politics. This is why the average Joe will let the elites control on what they hear and how they will be controlled through brainwashing.

Another thing I would like to talk about is that Noam Chomsky is a type of person who wont let nothing get in his way, for example: It was said that he risked his career and life for the sake of other people. This is one of the reasons why I would respect him. He could have put his whole family down the drain, but somehow he came out on top. I could tell he was a man who is not only intelligent, but also a man of great courage and caring for those in need, like those of East Timur.

If it wasnt for him, I would bet that more than half the class would of never heard about what was going on in East Timur. The reason why I believe he made film was that he wanted to help the people of East Timur or else he wouldn't have put it on the film. He wanted the viewers to see the tragedy of East Timur, for he believed that the only way to work out problems was from the outside and this I think, he meant us the viewers to spread the word for we are a democratic society and we control the government and not the government control us. For the final reason why I chose Noam Chomsky must be right was that was sort of angry at the government for writing or letting someone state that the people getting killed in East Timur was just a 'genocide by natural selection'. What does that mean?

Did the person saying this really understand what he was saying? To die by natural selection, to my dictionary means that the people of East Timur are getting killed because it was in their genes, so it was ok? Unless I got this one all mixed up, I cannot understand how any elite person could of said such derogatory words. Im sure most elites disagree with what this person said, so hopefully since they are the educated ones they will figure out to help the people of East Timur.

I have thought about what Chomsky has said and I hope that most of his sayings are't true but for some reason I can't believe that statement. I hope someday we can figure out the problems where the elites and the regular people can work together and that we all share the truth no matter whose at fault..