Propaganda, or how to get people to die for you
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2020-01-18

What is propaganda? How do you know what to believe? How do you question what you hear? How can we recognize propaganda? And how can we protect ourselves from it? 

Links: Reality Is a Shared Hallucination by Howard Bloom: http://reactor-core.org/reality-hallucination.html

Propaganda by Edward Bernays: http://whale.to/b/bernays.pdf

Creel Committee on Public Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information

Propaganda: the Formation of Men’s Attitudes by Jacques Ellul: https://b-ok.org/book/3354796/ad4e7a

Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley: https://b-ok.org/book/2635670/779320

How Americans are conditioned to want war: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-humanity-naturally/202001/youve-been-conditioned-war

Posters and the Cultural Revolution: https://menso.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/destroy-the-old-world-forge-a-new-world-posters-and-the-cultural-revolution/