"When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it... we join the fashionable madmen, and then...the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there." -Joan Didion (1965 ) --As a follow-up to the last episode, this trimmed and updated re-post connects Didion's fanatic test to the moral certitude manufactured by propaganda and its architects using social media as a delivery super weapon. Also, public vs. private opinion, the Cradle of Reason, how propagandees can respond to competing propagandists, and keeping the you in you. Like it? Share it!
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#133 - Proselytes & Militants Revisited: Indoctrination's Long March
#132 -Joe da Wabbit Hunter, Wokentology's Westboro Kids, Beware the Messiah
#131 - Mao's Grandkids vs. The Sun Tzu of Propaganda
#130 - Hamasholes, Jefferson's Coat, Democracy vs. The Invasive Species
#129 - The Bastard A's, AJ's Ruminations, Death's Perspective
#128 - Data Overload, Our Storytelling Paradox, The Everyman Tyrant
#127 - The Power of Patriotism, Cannibal Leftists, Our Badass Ancestors
#126 - On Tribalism: Unity Via Division, Vichy Whites, Being the Lone Chimp
#125 - Institutional Hospice & The Death of 9/12
#124 - Where’s Rock Bottom? Killing The Come Together Fairytale
#123 - Inappropriate Honesty, Truth Riders, That Which Must Remain Unsaid
#122 - Intellectual Tribalism & Gladiators in the Virtual Coliseum
#121 - The Authoritarian Mind #2: Puritanism vs The Right Not to Believe
#120 - The Authoritarian Mind #1: The Facebook Files, AI-Generated Agitprop, The Gatekeepers
#119 - Inherent Deceit & Self-Deception: Our Wonderful World of Make Believe
#118 - Propaganda: Inseminating Zealots & The Religious Mind
#117 - Propaganda, Trust, Coronavirus, and You: 3-Years Later
#116 - Guns, Balloons, Trains, Unworthy Victims
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