What did Andrew Bacevich label the book referenced by Necessary Illusions?
Necessary Illusions Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies is a 1989 book by United States academic Noam Chomsky concerning political power using propaganda to distort and distract from major issues to maintain confusion and complicity, preventing real democracy from becoming effective. The title of this book borrows a phrase from the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr.
Christopher Chabris Christopher F. Chabris ( ) is an American research psychologist, currently Senior Investigator (Professor) at Geisinger Health System, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France, and Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York (on leave 2016-2017). He is best known as the co-author (with Daniel Simons) of the popular science book "The Invisible Gorilla", which presents the results of research into attention and other cognitive illusions.