Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized, because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing. (Edward Said)

Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized, because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.

Edward Said

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