We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily… - Randal Marlin

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We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

Randal Marlin

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Randal Marlin (born 1938) is an American-born Canadian philosophy professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who specializes in the study of propaganda.

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Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

The specific media my change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthe… - Randal Marlin

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