http://www.hi-pda.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1882347
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRedd ... eople_dont_realize/]
提的问题是“什么东西实际是洗脑而大众不知道”，除了常规回答以外，这一条写得真好
『Entertainment media is a vehicle to sell you things through making you dissatisfied with real life. Not just obvious things, like cable packages, but things like diet programs, houses, makeup, plastic surgery, expensive clothes, and cars.
And if you think product placement and making you feel bad about being poor and ugly is the only thing they do, don't worry, the worst impact is how they alter your sense of reason and how you think about human nature.
You think there's always a right side and a wrong side, that the underdog can win, that a plucky hero can beat the bad guys by showing up at the last minute. It makes you think that politicians are literally out there pushing people in front of trains and hopelessly corrupt, so don't vote. It makes you think that lawyers are soulless blood suckers, so don't bother to sue your employer for violating your rights. It makes you think that moral ambiguity and nuance is wrong, and that whomever says their point the loudest with the most simple terms and never changes it or apologizes is right. It makes you think that minorities are just like they are in the movies, or that women can't do certain things, because they never do them on television.
It makes you complacent and docile, a member of a consuming class that find it futile to vote, defend your rights, or defend the rights of others. It makes you wary of meeting new people, distrustful of real life, because it doesn't match the "reality" that television taught you before you could know better.
Okay, I lied. The biggest piece of propaganda? It isn't that, as bad as that is. The biggest piece is that it doesn't affect you. That you're better than that. That you can just close your eyes and not believe in how you were socialized to expect certain things out of life because of the media.
That's what media is for: making you distracted, dumb, and endlessly hostile to the idea that doing anything to change your situation is actually possible. 』
翻译 by architect
娱乐媒体就是个载体，通过让你对现实生活不满进而兜售商品。不仅是显而易见的事情——有线电视套餐，还有饮食计划,房子,化妆品,整形手术,昂贵服饰和汽车。
如果你认为他们的所作所为只是植入式广告和让你觉得自己是个屌丝,其实还有更糟的——他们改变你的三观和你看待人性的方式。
你会觉得塞翁失马焉知非福,有志者事竟成,邪不胜正。它让你认为政客在碾压人民群众,腐败无可救药，还投个JB票。它让你认为律师是没有灵魂的吸血鬼,所以被老板玩死也不用拿起法律武器。它让你认为道德上的模棱两可是不对的,谁嗓门大谁有理。它让你认为少数民族和电影里的一毛一样,或者女人不能做某些事情,因为她们从来没有在电视上证明过。
它让你自满且听话,你们这些屌丝会发现投票,打官司都是徒劳的。它让你谨慎交友,对现实生活充满狐疑,因为它不符合电视里的“现实”，但你完全可以有更好的“现实”。
---这段大意是你完全可以无视传媒过你自己的生活---逐字翻很拗口
这就是传媒带来的结果:让你分心,让你变傻逼,让你敌视有可能逆袭的想法。