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Tag Archives: propaganda
Persuasion Beneath the Radar
I find it interesting that the below video promotes manipulation of people as ethical. At no point is one advised to reason with vulnerability and openness; to provide people with more than one side of an argument; or to rely on … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, critical thinking, Freud, persuasion, propaganda, psychology, reason, social psychology
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Tom Ricks Interview Abruptly Halted When He Says Fox “Is Operating As A Wing Of The Republican Party”
Below is one of the most amazing interview clips you’ll ever see. Tom Ricks, one of America’s most respected (and feared) investigative journalists, lasts 60 beautiful seconds on Fox News before the producer realizes he’s off script and shuts him … Continue reading
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Tagged Benghazi, Fox News, Politics, propaganda, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Tom Ricks
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Chris Hedges the Prophet on Print Culture Turning to Image Culture
Former New York Times war correspondent, Chris Hedges, has, over the past couple of years, taken on the mantle of a secular prophet—an emperor has no clothes truthteller—writing scathing (and I think powerful) books and essays documenting the messes that we find ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged America, books, Chris Hedges, Fox News, illiteracy, intellectuals, life, literacy, propaganda, reading, truth
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Glenn Beck, Teledemagogue?
I’ve never seen the appelation teledemagogue used before, but it strikes me as a perfect descriptive for Glenn Beck. Just as an evangelist can engage in televangelism, a demagogue can engage in teledemagoguery. And so there are televangelists and there are … Continue reading
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Tagged America, demagogues, Fox News, glenn beck, Jesus, media, propaganda, teledemagogue, televangelists, television
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Conspiracy Bait: Greenscreens are Everywhere—and Maybe Even Coming to the News
You certainly couldn’t fake a moon landing in 1969, but I suppose that, with contemporary technology, you might almost get away with it today. In the future, will government and corporate officials—and those in our assorted propaganda industries—start using the greenscreen technology below to … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, conspiracy, conspiracy bait, conspiracy theories, Fox News, greenscreen, media, moon landing, predictions, propaganda, the future
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Levi’s Abusing Walt Whitman?
I think I dislike this use of Walt Whitman. It feels like a debasement of his poetry—like using the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita to sell soda. And what’s up with the Leni Riefenstahl vibe and the fascist salutes (one toward the … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, fascism, levis, marketing, pioneers, poems, poetry, propaganda, romanticism, Walt Whitman
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Whence Nietzsche in Contemporary Atheist Reflection?
Philosopher John Gray sees it only in Michel Onfray: Among contemporary anti-religious polemicists, only the French writer Michel Onfray has taken Nietzsche as his point of departure. In some ways, Onfray’s In Defence of Atheism [titled in its U.S. edition as … Continue reading
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Tagged existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Gray, michel onfray, philosophy, propaganda, psychology, public relations, sales
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Quote of the Day: Robert Lifton on the “thought terminating cliche”
Thought terminating cliches? You know, like the ones that Americans hear weekly from Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Here’s the psychologist Robert Lifton, from his book, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism : “The language of the totalist environment is characterized by … Continue reading
Together All Alone? Democratic Strategist, James Carville, on the Internet
Carville thinks that, with regard to politics, people generally use the Internet to reinforce prejudices, not to form an independent opinion. In other words, people tend to drop into the rut of following only the blogs and websites that they agree with, … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, internet, james carville, opinion, philosophy, Politics, prejudice, propaganda, psychology, social psychology
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Propaganda Slide Depicting “Deformed” Children
Social Darwinism played a significant role in Hitler’s thinking, and it was part of the racialist ideology of the Nazis that the “unfit” (the physically or mentally disabled) should not devour the time and resources of the fit. Consequently, the fit … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, degenerate art, disabilities, equality, evolution, genocide, Holocaust, ideology, nazi ideology, philosophy, propaganda, Social Darwinism
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