Ideas Have Consequences - The Great Stereopticon

The Great Stereopticon

Weaver gives the name "The Great Stereopticon" to what he perceives as a rising, emergent construct which serves to manipulate the beliefs and emotions of the populace, and ultimately to separate them from their humanity via "the commodification of truth".

Here, notably, Weaver echoes the sentiments of C. S. Lewis in his book The Abolition of Man, (which was written nearly contemporaneously with Ideas Have Consequences), and anticipates the modern critique of consumerism.