Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us." in the context of "Ch. 20 : The Media : The Perpetual Voice of the Master, the Abiding Ear of the Slave, p. 236" to mean that wisdom is timeless.