The gentlest and most insidious way we are dominated by the body politic is by the official versions of the good life that are implicit in advertising and propaganda. Happiness is a new car, a color TV-fill in the gap with your own "freely chosen” artificially stimulated desire. (Sam Keen)

The gentlest and most insidious way we are dominated by the body politic is by the official versions of the good life that are implicit in advertising and propaganda. Happiness is a new car, a color TV-fill in the gap with your own "freely chosen” artificially stimulated desire.

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