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Is that the art of persuasion or the art of propaganda?
by potta_coffee 6y ago
Is that the art of persuasion or the art of propaganda?
- sandworm101 6y agoPropaganda is a tool of persuasion. So too is fear, money, guilt, logic and everything else under the sun that may move someone's mind from one opinion to another. The outer bounds are only what is acceptable under the various rulebooks (eg laws) which today are wide open compared to yesteryear.
- wwweston 6y agoIt's the art of persuasion via propaganda.
- chanakya 6y agoTo say that propaganda is part of the art of persuasion would be stretching the meaning of persuasion beyond its general usage. Persuasion implies a respect for its recipient and their rational faculty and trying to convince them by reasonable evidence and arguments. That is missing from propaganda. In fact, propaganda and advertising is most often the opposite, in that it aims to overpower the rational faculty with irrational appeals to emotion.