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One Of The Necessary Accompaniments Of Capitalism In A Democracy Is Political Corruption.

Journalism Is One Of The Devices Whereby Industrial Autocracy Keeps Its Control Over Political Democracy; It Is The Day-by-day, Between-elections Propaganda, Whereby The Minds Of The People Are Kept In A State Of Acquiescence, So That When The Crisis Of An Election Comes, They Go To The Polls And Cast Their Ballots For Either One Of The Two Candidates Of Their Exploiters.

Man Is An Evasive Beast, Given To Cultivating Strange Notions About Himself.

When The Masters Of Industry Pay Such Sums For A Newspaper, They Buy Not Merely The Building And The Presses And The Name; They Buy What They Call The "good-will"- That Is, They Buy You. And They Proceed To Change Your Whole Psychology - Everything That You Believe About Life. You Might Object To It, If You Knew; But They Do Their Work So Subtly That You Never Guess What Is Happening To You!

All Truly Great Art Is Optimistic. The Individual Artist Is Happy In His Creative Work. The Fact That Practically All Great Art Is Tragic Does Not In Any Way Change The Above Thesis.