Top 6 Quotes by Mark Crispin Miller

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

Mark Crispin Miller

Media, People, Germany

Attributed to Mark Crispin Miller in Michael A. Kirchubel "Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America" (p. 224), 2009.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

Mark Crispin Miller

Friendly, Culture, Advertising

Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.

Mark Crispin Miller

Communication, Thinking, Atmosphere

Mark Crispin Miller (1988). “Boxed in: The Culture of TV”, p.11, Northwestern University Press

Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

Mark Crispin Miller

Pain, Lying, Compassion