![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the contrary he says, education, or what usually goes by that word in the modern world, is the absolute prerequisite for propaganda. ![]() Full PDF here.Ĭentral in Ellul’s thesis, is that modern propaganda cannot work without “education” he thus reverses the widespread notion that education is the best prophylactic against propaganda. Selected excerpts from Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, without commentary. With the logic which is the great instrument of French thought, explores and attempts to prove the thesis that propaganda, whether its ends are demonstrably good or bad, is not only destructive to democracy, it is perhaps the most serious threat to humanity operating in the modern world. A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. ![]()
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