"The propagandists did their job well, and few people today know of the connection between public relations and propaganda; many ‘public relations counsels’ do

"The propagandists did their job well, and few people today know of the connection between public relations and propaganda; many ‘public relations counsels’ do not even know the history of their own field. Propaganda popularly remains defined as any attempt at mass manipulation, but the reality is that it is a multibillion-dollar industry with a well-defined set of practitioners, knowledges, and economic relationships." "This situation is made more dangerous by the fact that many people writing history about propaganda are themselves often public relations counsels, once were counsels, or were trained in related disciplines like journalism, communications, or public relations (even if they never worked in PR)." "In terms of resisting propaganda, successful displacements of propaganda will have to take seriously that propaganda is not primarily an epistemological apparatus but one of government and subjectification. Resisting propaganda is not so much a task of liberation from various kinds of falsehood, as if underneath all the lies remained an untouched, happy, and flourishing being, waiting to be set free by the truth."