"Far more insidious and less open to conscious challenge are the notions that so fit into the dominant political culture's field of established images that they appear not as biased manipulations but as 'the nature of things.'"
--Parenti, Inventing Reality
That's a pretty concise description of things, I'd say.
"The third world is not poor. You don't go to poor countries to make money. Most countries are rich. Only the people are poor. Ordinary people pay the costs of empire. These countries are not underdeveloped, they are over exploited." Michael Parenti
maybe because im from there, but to me this is the best