While reading James Bovard’s excellent Freedom in Chains: The Rise of The State and the Demise of the Citizen the following quote from Philosophy Professor John Burnheim from his book Is Democracy Possible? stood out, particularly as we're in the middle of election season:
“Overwhelming pressures to lie, to pretend, to conceal, to denigrate or sanctify are always present when the object to be sold is intangible and its properties unverifiable until long after the time when the decision to buy can be reversed.”
The search is on for a copy.
