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The cause is choosing to be manufactured consent. Choosing that manufacturing is the consequence we keep revisiting. If the ones being manipulated stopped to think “maybe we keep choosing wrong” they wouldn't be in position where manufacturing consent would exist, they would instead choose to simply collaborate with despots that happen to be corrupt old white men.