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Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
Shamgar
I fail to understand what any of that has to do with the topic at hand.
Maybe you should include some of your own thoughts (if any) about those extrenal sources instead of just propping them up and saying, "Lookie what I found, guys! "
His propaganda [Joseph Goebbels] crusades were based on a simple observation: What the masses term truth is that information which is most familiar. As Goebbels put it:
'The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. In the long run only he will achieve basic results in influencing public opinion who is able to reduce problems to the simplest terms and who has the courage to keep forever repeating them in this simplified form despite the objections of the intellectuals.(5)'
Pratkanis, Anthony and Aronson, “Age of Propaganda": The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion” (New York: 2001) Page 182.