You Need Propaganda

We tend to think of propaganda as something done to us. But given the effects of the technological society, we have come to need propaganda to keep ourselves and society functioning.

90. You Need Propaganda

The common way that propaganda is thought about by many is that the propagandist is an evil manipulator and we are his passive, innocent victims. People have similar views of advertising — which is a form of propaganda — that it is something inflicted upon us by people trying to manipulate us into buying their products or services. This view is wrong.

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