About the stupidest law on the State of Oklahoma books. All it takes is two or more components used in a cook to get you sent to prison for a minimun sentence of 7 years. Basically creates a situation where almost anyone could be charged with trying to make meth.
Joe is going camping. He buys coleman fuel for his camp stove, cold packs in case of injury, and Sudafed because Joe has allergies. Joe gets pulled over. Joe is charged with Endeavouring to Manufacture a Controlled Substance. Joe spends the next 7 years of his life as a guest of the State of Oklahoma. Joe had never done drugs in his life.
by tragicbeautiful January 27, 2011
A falsified righteous outrage at things that are basically unimportant and meaningless, frequently employed by politicians, political activists, or the media. Politicians and talking heads use it to garner support for their causes, to claim the moral high ground and to tar their opponents; the media often just uses it in a cynical bid to increase ratings.
Manufactured outrages of note include Nipplegate, the Monica Lewinski scandal, the 2009 tea partys, backmasked satanic lyrics, lapel pin controversies...
Just about any time you hear any politician, activist, or radio show host getting outraged about anything, really. The louder and angrier they get, the harder they're working at manufacturing it.
Just about any time you hear any politician, activist, or radio show host getting outraged about anything, really. The louder and angrier they get, the harder they're working at manufacturing it.
by Aquillion2 May 20, 2009
an alternative that's probably just started, and clothes style and sense of style is mainstream, no originality, like everyone else
by rose hurley April 11, 2003
by Barkin' December 2, 2018
1. All that made up junk that you find in news or sports crawls on television.
2. Anything that is offered as fact by a reporter that is simply an opinion SAID as a fact.
2. Anything that is offered as fact by a reporter that is simply an opinion SAID as a fact.
Bracketologists provide manufactured knowledge when listing NCAA Tournament seedings 2 weeks before the field is even announced.
by El A in the D March 15, 2007
When a company pays people to advertise a product by singing its praises in highly unlikely situations. The attempt is to make the product look more important than it actually is. In reality, people can see though the lie and tend to hate the company for it.
Subway has a commercial featuring a bunch of people singing about it's $5 foot long subs. This is a "Manufactured Sensation" because no one in their right mind would gather a church quire to sing about sandwich.
by Jeffsback2223 June 18, 2009
There are a lot of "manufactured" phenomena that are disingenuous, shameful, and harmful to the evolution of the human species. Besides the all-to-common manufactured drama, there is the "manufactured crisis" that, in one common instance, upper management uses when they feel guilty for earning so much money for doing relatively nothing. They create a crisis to feel self-important and to re-assert their position in the pecking order of the organization.
Manufactured crisis can also involve skewing research and statistics, falsification of reports, outright lying, and the presentation of various unfounded data to to things like: sway public opinion, create drama in a small uneventful human lives, get a person stigmatized and/or fired from their job, acquire funding and administrative support for pet projects, and a affect a myriad of hypocritical and radically dishonest outcomes.
Being blissfully unaware, willfully obtuse, and ultimately subjugated by those employing this tactic is often embraced by those wanting to advance their own agenda and/or enforce their own preconceptions. This is a larger social phenomenon used to define (again) manufactured, superficial, and subjective dualities of "good and evil", "us and them", "right and wrong", et. al. It is common throughout the history of civilization and has been key to the human atrocities that stem from not only an innate human arrogance and elitism, but the coupling of (2) very disparate and volatile human elements: insecurity and competitive drive.
This phenomena's efficacy in "rallying troops" has helped it to become a common propaganda model used in right and left wing media, politics, and corporations which are often one-in-the-same in today's oligarchical society.
Manufactured crisis can also involve skewing research and statistics, falsification of reports, outright lying, and the presentation of various unfounded data to to things like: sway public opinion, create drama in a small uneventful human lives, get a person stigmatized and/or fired from their job, acquire funding and administrative support for pet projects, and a affect a myriad of hypocritical and radically dishonest outcomes.
Being blissfully unaware, willfully obtuse, and ultimately subjugated by those employing this tactic is often embraced by those wanting to advance their own agenda and/or enforce their own preconceptions. This is a larger social phenomenon used to define (again) manufactured, superficial, and subjective dualities of "good and evil", "us and them", "right and wrong", et. al. It is common throughout the history of civilization and has been key to the human atrocities that stem from not only an innate human arrogance and elitism, but the coupling of (2) very disparate and volatile human elements: insecurity and competitive drive.
This phenomena's efficacy in "rallying troops" has helped it to become a common propaganda model used in right and left wing media, politics, and corporations which are often one-in-the-same in today's oligarchical society.
"Being a Good German", Salem Witchcraft Trials, The Crusades, Radical Islam, and definition #3 of the "Manufacturing Outrage" entry.
See also: Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent".
"My dickhead boss fired me after years of hyper-scrutiny and manufactured crisis because I was deemed a threat to the department's soul-less administrative way of life where all they wanted was to graze (like cows) their way to retirement".
See also: Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent".
"My dickhead boss fired me after years of hyper-scrutiny and manufactured crisis because I was deemed a threat to the department's soul-less administrative way of life where all they wanted was to graze (like cows) their way to retirement".
by Gay Republican May 29, 2009