“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on — because they're dysfunctional to the institutions. I mean, it would be highly dysfunctional to have people in the media who could ask questions like this. So by the time you've made it to Bureau Chief or Editor, or you've become a bigshot at C.B.S. or something, the chances are that you've just got all this stuff in your bones — you've internalized values that make it clear to you that there are certain things you just don't say, and in fact, you don't even think about them anymore.”
— Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power
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