The filter we lost when social media supplanted print media within the information ecosystem.
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The plan presented to the administration in February lives here
The aforementioned point Matt Zeller nailed for me.
Matt Zeller be nailin' my point.
The most unexpected challenge I've encountered this month? The necessity of pointing out to someone who has read Bernays' Propaganda that the world has changed in the 92 years since it was first published, let alone that some of his assumptions were wrong when he made them.
Real deja vu is such a wild experience. Wish I remembered the neurological cause.
Impossible to over exaggerate just how many typos there are in this book. How have they not fixed this sh$t in sixteen years? After finding every appearance of aesthetic misspelled I checked to see if it existed as an old or alternate spelling. I found no evidence.
The good ole days, am I right ladies?
I mean…
Translation: "These women knew nothing of politics, were it not for their use of new propaganda…"
Actually, they drew attention to a sound argument for equality.
He will also be enabled to focus the public mind on WTF he wishes & regiment a vast mass of voters to false understanding and unintelligent action.
Bernays describing how the old way was to inform the people what was intended, receive feedback, and adapt to the people's will.
The new way is to decide for the people … and leave it to propagandists to get them onboard. Single point of failure, the man making decisions.
We wish we could educate you, but we can only control you without consent.
For anyone following along at home, the yellow highlights were my initial read through upon purchase, the orange from my read through for the art, and the blue highlights are my current read through for what went wrong since 1928.
Guess Imma try splitting the propaganda art by chapters … 108 images loading is a bit of a lift.
I had no idea what I was signing up for when I finally got around to giving #SearchParty a shot … this is night four of watching nothing but.
Paul Rieckhoff is spot on.
More people have said "I'd love to be wrong" in the last two years than any other two year period in human history. ⑴ change my mind or 🄑 spend a good five minutes reflecting on the implications