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 i...
Institutional analysis on geopolitics, Islam, history, and the global secular order