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In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to hum
by quercusa 5y ago
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
- 'Theodore Dalrymple' (Dr. Anthony Daniels)
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- smitty1e 5y agoI was about to add this quotation. In summary, propaganda is about conditioning the proletariat.
- etotolkoya 5y agoreally? the proletariat? and your search engines decisipn to lower the ranking of dissenting views on Ukraine? and facebook decision to allow hate speech abput russians ("oh no.. we are not der sturmer.. you see, it is only about the military.. oh, in some states.." when it is all over your american controlled internet, and concerns all russians). it affects each one of you, exceptional nation.
- smitty1e 5y ago> Search engines decision to lower the ranking of dissenting views on Ukraine? Definite propaganda
- etotolkoya 5y agohttps://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-associated-with-russian-disinformation https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-ass... You see, the question is what you call "russian disonformation". From point of view of most of ypu, what I write here is " russoan disinformation", while actually I simply don't accept your state manufactured view of the events.
- smitty1e 5y agoOn a personal level, I: (a) Don't have a substantive view on these events other than "beating up the neighbor is hard to justify". (b) Am comfortable that what is publicly known has a terrible signal-to-noise ratio, while what is privately driving the whole situation is likely at odds with what's publicly known.