"When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy, they have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want, and that's a far more depressing thought." Steve Jobs

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There was a conspiracy.

Schools Were Designed by Corporate Foundations - John Taylor Gatto

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Schools and TV are not the same thing. Schools are supposed to be teaching us and are clearly not. TV is supposed to entertain, and does that.

I think they both participate in brainwashing. But if people watched more documentaries they would produce more documentaries and just use those for propaganda.

The Jobs quote isn't wrong. Everyone is just expanding it beyond what he said.