Sentences with phrase «powerful cultural messages»

Primed by these powerful cultural messages — in magazines, on television, in movies, in supermarket conversations, from our own parents — we can trick ourselves into believing that there's just one party to go to, one group to belong to, and that if we don't get in and stay in, we don't measure up or risk being thrown out.

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Traditionally, the people's communication processes are suppressed by those of the powerful rulers, who have controlled the message and media through the ruling elites and the established cultural and religious institutions.

I think there is a lot there that is related to the cultural development of the 50's along with the technological development / widespread adoption of broadcast TV, where a powerful few controlled the messages and society was seduced into swallowing the message whole because they had never seen such wonderful technology.