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Really I was expecting a Goebbels reference by now. Sadly, "Well, we're all human, and humans are complicated" doesn't propagate. "Kill the $X" does. Just loo
by FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
Really I was expecting a Goebbels reference by now.
Sadly, "Well, we're all human, and humans are complicated" doesn't propagate. "Kill the $X" does.
Just look at recent memes. It's terrifying. They defy even logic, yet they work.
I wonder if "propaganda" and "propagate" have similar word roots.
- zozbot234 5y agoWhy "wonder" when you could just look it up? When people are so intellectually lazy these days, it's no "wonder" that nuances get lost! (Though maybe you were just going for a joke. Poe's law is a bitch, y'know.)
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoFine, sometimes I can be bothered to go to Wikipedia: > Propaganda is a modern Latin word, ablative singular feminine of the gerundive form of propagare, meaning 'to spread' or 'to propagate', thus propaganda means for that which is to be propagated.[4] Originally this word derived from a new administrative body of the Catholic Church (congregation) created in 1622 as part of the Counter-Reformation, called the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (Congregation for Propagating the Faith), or informally simply Propaganda.[3][5] Its activity was aimed at "propagating" the Catholic faith in non-Catholic countries.[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda Behold the cognate is true.