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What he calls inevitabilism, Chomsky referred to as "manufacturing consent":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Sure, Chomsky was specifically talking about how the underlying systems of US mass media manufacture consent among the governed but inevitabilism lies at its core: a thought-terminating cliché that eliminates all alternatives from even being legitimate subjects of the debate.



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