Utilitarianism: The Role Of Distraction In The United States

For centuries its been known that the elite controls the masses through various tactics such as fear, intimidation, and the most common; distraction. Distraction is probably the most common tool widely use. TV’s channels are filled with repugnant reality shows that keep the population from vital information to impose the will of the government in order to hide what’s really going on out there. They also use the media to filter the news and they are delivered in a way that creates racial, political, and social conflict to keep people fighting with each other while the government commits unspeakable crimes all around the world, meanwhile we are too busy arguing with each other and afterwards they make us believe other countries are out to get us, confusing people, making up stories about attacks on American when is really the other way around. Utilitarianism is widely use by the government especially when it comes to public planning policies; including the media. In the case of propaganda, the utilitarian can argue …show more content…
Therefore, controlling the news and the information that is filter would be justified under this theory because a