Comments on: Propaganda and the Engineering of Consent for Empire http://mediaroots.org/propaganda-and-the-engineering-of-consent-for-empire/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Len http://mediaroots.org/propaganda-and-the-engineering-of-consent-for-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-1627 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:55:06 +0000 http://mediaroots.org/?p=8377#comment-1627 “…today, thanks to the mass media, the individual finds himself outside the battle that is now between the State and powerful groups. The freedom to express ideas is no longer at stake in this debate but it has been replaced by mastery and domination by the State or some powerful groups over the formation of opinion. The individual is not in the battle because he is the stake and the battle will determine what voice he will be permitted to hear and which words will have the power to obsess him.” from Rivero or Ellul, I’m not sure which.

]]> By: Len http://mediaroots.org/propaganda-and-the-engineering-of-consent-for-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-1605 Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:00:19 +0000 http://mediaroots.org/?p=8377#comment-1605 For more on this I would definitely recommend watching “Century of the Self” and also these shorter pieces:

“Oh Dearism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8moePxHpvok

Part 2: I would call this “The politics of confusion”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UstNBrmJFc

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