On Ellul's "The Need For Propaganda." We've both developed a tolerance for and a psychological dependency on propaganda's certainty-stoking, justifying, and and self-worth generating narratives, social media is a propagandist's dream, desensitization and an increasing desire for the excitement felt from being immersed in the constant, and necessary stream of propaganda, how our addiction has allowed both traditional media and social media "influencers" to monetize the Outrage Industrial Complex, our role as retained ideological attorneys, and wishful thinking (and possibly disastrous effects) of suddenly eliminating 320-million people's propaganda narratives. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Grab a sammich for this one. And maybe a stiff drink. Hey! I never said this would be easy!
ALSO:
Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747
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#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
#22 - Pick Your Authoritarian Wisely
#21 - Social Media Disease - Virtue Batsignals, Puritans, Exhausted Majority
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