Escaping The Cave

#37 - Propaganda: Intellectual Autonomy & Banishing Fabricants

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How propaganda acts as an informational virus to destroy critical thought and alienate the person from himself. More on data overload, the uninformed Current Events Man knowing a little about everything and a lot about nothing, mistaking feelings for thought, having to accept or reject an entire doctrine in total, losing intellectual autonomy, and how artificial tensions are often accompanied by dubious solutions. 

ALSO:

  • Artificial solutions to real needs
  • Real solutions to artificial needs
  • "Influencers", their product, and their Patreon
  • The Tribal Dance of Rhetorical Fuckery
  • We're a species of sleazy lawyers and pathological liars
  • Self-stereotyping caricatures
  • It's fine to generalize then exile sectarian fabricants

    • Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747

     

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