"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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#42 - Propaganda: Contradictions, Agitation Media, Typhoid Mark
#41 - Propaganda: Drunks In Denial
#40 - Propaganda: Righteousness & Simplicity
#39 - Wanted: Wokeflake Demagogue, Dignity And The Useful Idiot, Tyrannizing The Vanquished
#38 - Informational Anarchy & Deadly Insignificance
#37 - Propaganda: Intellectual Autonomy & Banishing Fabricants
#36 - Propaganda: Rationalization & The Religious Mind
#35 - Propaganda: Inseminating Zealots & Vicarious Atonement
#34 - Propaganda: Manufacturing Proselytes & Militants
#33 - Propaganda's Mindcrime
#32 - Spinning Mueller & The Sacred Cows
#31 - Humanist Puritans, Wokeflake Jesus, Manchurian Crusaders
#30 - Renouncing Patriotism And The Nationalist Boomerang
#29 - Guidance Is Internal
#28 - Wordknapping, Propaganda's Effects, A Reckoning
#27 - Propaganda: Agenda + Journalism
#26 - Broken Beasts of Intellectual Burden
#25 - Convulsive Twitch and The Damage Done
#24 - The Signal To Noise Ratio and A Digital Pretox
#23 - The Social Media Disease - Distraction Sickness, Electronic Eyes, Thought Shaming
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