| The book shows how the corporately controlled mass-media of western democracies which serves as a giant filter system favouring powerful state and business interests distorts our understanding of many personal, ethical and spiritual issues, ensuring that one remains passive, conformist, confused, uninformed and willing to accept the irrational values of corporate consumerism. According to the author the continual process of disinformation and disempowerment can be countered if one masters the art of “intellectual self-defense†and so become able to challenge the deceptions of a system that subordinates people and planet to the drive for profit. |