#40 - Propaganda: Righteousness & Simplicity

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 11:45 a.m.

The Propaganda opus resumes with Ellul's take on psychic "dissociation". Includes more on wordknapping, how righteous and simplistic propaganda narratives silence the self and numb natural cognitive dissonance, replacing reality with the electronic eyes of the "verbal universe", the effects of disconnecting a person's personal opinion in favor of an acceptable "public" opinion, and how opposing propagandas affect the target.\nALSO:\nDemocratic Socialists: as ridiculous during Occupy as at their "convention"\nAligned, Premeditated, and Secret Consciences: Individuality and Haidt's Elephant\nDisconnecting thought & action \xa0\nOpposing propagandas: political abstention or fanaticism?\nThe IDW: Agitation Propaganda\nData Overload and the Defective Human Mind\nYour congenial host and the Ideological Riptide\nNo one's immune. Not even you.\nJacques Ellul's "Propaganda":\xa0https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747\n*Like the pod? SPREAD IT!\xa0You are the marketing team.*Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and your favorite podcatcher.*Also check out\xa0www.christophermedia.net\xa0&\xa0www.escapingthecave.com