Political Theory

Frameworks for understanding power, authority and how societies organise - the ideas that shape what's possible.

6 concepts

Manufactured Consent

When media systems produce public agreement with elite interests - not through censorship, but through structure.

Intense public fear about a perceived threat, amplified by media, disproportionate to the actual danger.

The range of ideas the public considers acceptable at any given time - and how that range can be deliberately shifted.

A tolerant society that tolerates intolerance will eventually be destroyed by it.

When the agencies meant to regulate an industry end up serving its interests instead.

The tendency for people to stay silent when they believe their opinion is in the minority, causing that opinion to seem even rarer than it is.