Tag: ellul
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The Propaganda Machine
The following is an excerpt from a draft commentary I’m working on, going through Ellul’s Propaganda chapter by chapter, section by section. Have I talked about bouncing off Ellul’s work before? Yes, I have. Why am I returning to it now? I wanted to refine my thoughts on persuasion and propaganda, so I thought the…
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Why Propaganda Works
“American sociologists scientifically try to play down the effectiveness of propaganda because they cannot accept the idea that the individual—that cornerstone of democracy—can be so fragile; and because they retain their ultimate trust in man.” This is a line from early in Jacques Ellul’s book Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (Propagandes in the original…