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Get the Manufactured Mind mug.(verb The activity of personnel in management roles in which problems are both created and resolved by the same person. Usually while increasing the workload of all other employees of the company.
by Naaglooshi February 12, 2021
Get the manufactured relevance mug.Manufactured crises are when a person or a group cries out to others that something or someone is in danger from a different something or someone... when it really isn't. This is either because the claimed threat doesn't actually exist, or the claimed threat doesn't actually credibly threaten the thing that is purported to be threatened.
Unfortunately manufactured crises can be just as believable and seem just as real and dangerous as real crises when put together well. This especially goes if the reasoning behind manufactured crises plays to peoples' already existing prejudices and preconceptions about the things or other groups of people that are cast as being a threat.
Manufactured crises are frequently used in politics to rile up supporters and win over new ones. They often have a lot of overlap with conspiracy theories due to their shared nature of being untrue at their core. Hateful ideologies like antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc are also often propped up by manufactured crises that say that Jews/gays/foreigners/some other group are a threat to us, our family, our children, our country, our way of life, whatever.
Unfortunately manufactured crises can be just as believable and seem just as real and dangerous as real crises when put together well. This especially goes if the reasoning behind manufactured crises plays to peoples' already existing prejudices and preconceptions about the things or other groups of people that are cast as being a threat.
Manufactured crises are frequently used in politics to rile up supporters and win over new ones. They often have a lot of overlap with conspiracy theories due to their shared nature of being untrue at their core. Hateful ideologies like antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc are also often propped up by manufactured crises that say that Jews/gays/foreigners/some other group are a threat to us, our family, our children, our country, our way of life, whatever.
ben: We've got to stop the gays. They're brainwashing and indoctrinating our children and turning them gay in our schools with all that diversity and inclusion bullcrap they're pushing! It's all part of their agenda!
chris: Simmer down, ben. Take a rational look at what's actually happening. Even if you feel uncomfortable around gay people, that whole bit about schools brainwashing children into being gay is nothing more than a manufactured crisis by right-wing leaders to rile you up. What schools are doing is teaching about the fact that queer people exist and that they should be respected the same as you would any other person. It's nowhere near being the "brainwashing" that the news pundits hype it up to be, and the goal certainly isn't to "turn our children gay".
chris: Simmer down, ben. Take a rational look at what's actually happening. Even if you feel uncomfortable around gay people, that whole bit about schools brainwashing children into being gay is nothing more than a manufactured crisis by right-wing leaders to rile you up. What schools are doing is teaching about the fact that queer people exist and that they should be respected the same as you would any other person. It's nowhere near being the "brainwashing" that the news pundits hype it up to be, and the goal certainly isn't to "turn our children gay".
by ngicecream July 6, 2023
Get the manufactured crisis mug.The process by which consent is engineered through control of information, media, education, and cultural narratives. Unlike Imposed Consent (which uses direct pressure), Manufactured Consent works indirectly: shaping what people believe, what seems reasonable, what appears inevitable, until they consent to arrangements that may not serve their interests. The term comes from Herman and Chomsky's analysis of mass media, but applies broadly: advertising manufactures desire, education manufactures worldview, news manufactures reality. People genuinely believe they're choosing freely—but the options, the framing, and the information were manufactured by powers they never see.
"Americans overwhelmingly support the military, but ask them about the details of defense spending and they have no idea. That's Manufactured Consent: patriotism engineered through media, education, and culture until support feels natural, inevitable, chosen. It's not conspiracy—it's just how power works when it doesn't need to impose."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
Get the Manufactured Consent mug.The appearance of widespread agreement engineered through media, education, and cultural repetition rather than genuine deliberation. Manufactured Consensus makes certain views seem obviously correct, universally held, beyond question—not because they've survived debate, but because debate was never permitted or alternative views were never presented. "Everyone knows that..." becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: repeat it enough, and people believe it, and believing it, they repeat it. Consensus manufactured, not discovered; constructed, not emergent.
"In the 1950s, everyone knew women belonged in the home. That wasn't consensus discovered—it was consensus manufactured: through media, education, advertising, and the silencing of alternatives. People genuinely believed it because they'd never heard anything else. Manufactured Consensus feels like reality until it isn't."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
Get the Manufactured Consensus mug.The subtle shaping of what can be said, thought, and discussed through control of language, media, education, and cultural production—without direct coercion. Manufactured Discourse doesn't forbid certain topics; it makes them unthinkable, unsayable, ridiculous. It floods the available channels with certain framings, certain vocabularies, certain assumptions, until alternatives seem naive, extreme, or crazy. People don't refrain from questioning because they're afraid; they refrain because the questions never occur to them, or occur framed as obviously wrong. Manufactured Discourse is power that doesn't need to censor because it's already shaped what anyone would want to say.
"Decades of advertising, media, and education have made 'consumers' feel like a natural identity. That's Manufactured Discourse: the language of markets applied to everything, until citizenship itself becomes customer service. No one forbade other frameworks—they were just never made available."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
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