Paul on Nostr: “In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press ...
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy
and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the
propaganda might be true, or it 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 1959
and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the
propaganda might be true, or it 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 1959