#42 - Propaganda: Contradictions, Agitation Media, Typhoid Mark

Propaganda's ambiguity and contradictions including: creating tensions while relieving others, the Outrage Media Complex and introduction to the companion propagandas: agitation and integration and how they overlap; self-justification and imposed guilt; attachment and ostracizing oneself to join the "enemy; politicization and privatization; "Why die for Danzig?' and how political orphans benefit extremists and authoritarians.



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• Andrew Sullivan on the boomerang


• Post-Truth hatred and division: a bigger threat than climate change


• Don't blame the bartender for getting you drunk


• Twitter, Facebook, and Typhoid Mary


• Atomic Ping Pong


• Our personal broadcast stations


• The Russia investigation saved the Democrats


• Setting up your triage tent


• Forget the mob; save yourself


• Information or Propaganda? Can you tell? Does it even matter?


• The Matrix & Propaganda

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



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