Chomsky: Purpose Of Super Bowl Is To ‘Dull [Joe Sixpack’s] Brain’

Noam Chomsky: Super Bowl reduces ‘Joe Six Pack’s capacity to think’ http://t.co/15H1FwcOQw

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Noam Chomsky weighed in on the Super Bowl in the documentary Manufacturing Consent.

The purpose of the Super Bowl — and sports in general — is “pure diversion. There’s the real mass media-the kinds that are aimed at, you know, Joe Six Pack — that kind. The purpose of those media is just to dull people’s brains.”

“This is an oversimplification,” Chomsky argues, “but for the eighty percent or whatever they are, the main thing is to divert them. To get them to watch National Football League. And to worry about ‘Mother With Child With Six Heads,’ or whatever you pick up on the supermarket stands and so on. Or look at astrology. Or get involved in fundamentalist stuff or something or other.”

The point is to “get them away from things that matter. And for that it’s important to reduce their capacity to think.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.