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Postby IDL » Tue May 17, 2016 10:45 pm

In the field of mass communications as in almost every other field of enterprise, technological progress has hurt the Little Man and helped the Big Man. As lately as fifty years ago, every democratic country could boast of a great number of small journals and local newspapers. Thousands of country editors expressed thousands of independent opinions. Somewhere or other almost anybody could get almost anything printed. Today the press is still legally free; but most of the little papers have disappeared. The cost of wood-pulp, of modern printing machinery and of syndicated news is too high for the Little Man. In the totalitarian East there is political censorship, and the media of mass communication are controlled by the State. In the democratic West there is economic censorship and the media of mass communication are controlled by members of the Power Elite. Censorship by rising costs and the concentration of communication power in the hands of a few big concerns is less objectionable than State ownership and government propaganda; but certainly it is not something of which a Jeffersonian democrat could possibly approve.


In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.


ALDOUS HUXLEY, Brave New World Revisited, 1958

http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/

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Postby IDL » Tue May 17, 2016 10:54 pm

The moral for Unesco is clear. The task laid upon it of promoting peace and security can never be wholly realized through the means assigned to it-education, science and culture. It must envisage some form of world political unity, whether through a single world government or otherwise;& the only certain means for avoiding war. However, world political unity is, unfortunately, a remote ideal, and in any case does not fall within the field of Unesco’s competence. This does not mean that Unesco cannot do a great deal towards promoting peace and security. Specifically, in its educational programme it can stress the ultimate need for world political unity and familiarize all peoples with the implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organization.


Julian Huxley (brother of Aldous), 1946

the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Huxley

Quote source from Unesco:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0006/0 ... 8197eo.pdf

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Postby IDL » Thu May 26, 2016 11:08 pm

The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world to-day


Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html

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Postby Canuckster » Fri May 27, 2016 7:54 am

IDL wrote:
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world to-day


Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html



This is good
People say they all want the truth, but when they are confronted with a truth that disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse come to destroy civilization.

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Postby IDL » Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:08 pm

Once the ruling members of the CFR have decided that the U.S. Government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of CFR are put to work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition.


Admiral Chester Ward, Kissinger on the Couch, p. 151. 1975

[the CFR has as a goal] submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.… this lust to surrender the sovereignty and independence of the United States is pervasive throughout most of the membership.… In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as ‘America First’


Admiral Chester Ward, Kissinger on the Couch, pp. 144-150. 1975


Former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy, was invited into CFR membership and remained for twenty years, and became one of its sharpest critics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Adv ... f_the_Navy
https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-Couch- ... 0870002163

* note I haven't seen a PDF version of the book 'Kissinger on the couch to confirm the paged quotes'

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Postby IDL » Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:20 am

The ugly fact is that most middle-class Socialists, while theoretically pining for a class-less society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments of social prestige....The Coles, Webbs, Stracheys, etc., are not exactly proletarian writers...Sometimes I look at a Socialist — the intellectual, tract-writing type of Socialist, with his pullover, his fuzzy hair, and his Marxian quotation — and wonder what the devil his motive really is. It is often difficult to believe that it is a love of anybody, especially of the working class, from whom he is of all people the furthest removed. The underlying motive of many Socialists, I believe, is simply a hypertrophied sense of order. The present state of affairs offends them not because it causes misery, still less because it makes freedom impossible, but because it is untidy; what they desire, basically, is to reduce the world to something resembling a chessboard. Take the plays of a lifelong Socialist like Shaw. How much understanding or even awareness of working-class life do they display? ... You get the same thing in a more mealy-mouthed form in Mrs Sidney Webb's autobiography, which gives, unconsciously, a most revealing picture of the high-minded Socialist slum-visitor. The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them', the Lower Orders...


- George Orwell, THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER, 1937

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200391.txt

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Postby Masato » Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:20 pm

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