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Methods of Propaganda

Propaganda in today's common perception seems rather highly discredited because the public generally have the propagandized view of their local and national media, that being that such outlets are there to inform them with what they like to claim as being "fair and balanced". Thus this mistaken perception leads to the public's common false conclusion that the employment of this term "propaganda" is problematic and essentially doesn't apply to them.


"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers . . . . The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
~ Aldous Huxley

Further insights on the same topic are extracted quotes from the famed British imperial philosopher Bertrand Russell

"Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. . . . It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished."

"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."

"Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."

-- Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953, pg 49-50

The subject matter is voluminous in nature. I just wanted to bring a basic outline of how modern enacted these forms of control of information through the likes of making themselves in charge of "education" and its role in our lives
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