The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley In the press this week was a 2020 study of regular Fox News viewers who were paid to watch CNN for 30 days. The study showed that after the participants eschewed the Murdoch media outlet they became more skeptical and less likely to buy into fake news and misinformation. The study, titled “The manifold…
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Fiction, Lies and Propaganda
The ideal subject of a totalitarian state is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (that is, the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (that is, the standards of thought) no longer exist. Hannah Arendt America (not just Russia) has a problem…