fiatjårêd. on Nostr: "Propaganda tries to surround man by all possible routes in the realm of feelings as ...
"Propaganda tries to surround man by all possible routes in the realm of feelings as well as ideas, by playing on his will or on his needs, through his conscious and his unconscious, assailing him in both his private and his public life.
"It furnishes him with a complete system for explaining the world, and provides immediate incentives to action. We are here in the presence of an organized myth that tries to take hold of the entire person.
"Through the myth it creates, propaganda imposes a complete range of intuitive knowledge, susceptible of only one interpretation, unique and one-sided, and precluding any divergence. This myth becomes so powerful that it invades every arena of consciousness, leaving no faculty or motivation intact. It stimulates in the individual a feeling of exclusiveness, and produces a biased attitude.
"The myth has such motive force that, once accepted, it controls the whole of the individual, who becomes immune to any other influence.
"This explains the totalitarian attitude that the individual adopts—wherever a myth has been successfully created—and that simply reflects the totalitarian action of propaganda on him."
~Ellul
"It furnishes him with a complete system for explaining the world, and provides immediate incentives to action. We are here in the presence of an organized myth that tries to take hold of the entire person.
"Through the myth it creates, propaganda imposes a complete range of intuitive knowledge, susceptible of only one interpretation, unique and one-sided, and precluding any divergence. This myth becomes so powerful that it invades every arena of consciousness, leaving no faculty or motivation intact. It stimulates in the individual a feeling of exclusiveness, and produces a biased attitude.
"The myth has such motive force that, once accepted, it controls the whole of the individual, who becomes immune to any other influence.
"This explains the totalitarian attitude that the individual adopts—wherever a myth has been successfully created—and that simply reflects the totalitarian action of propaganda on him."
~Ellul
quoting nevent1q…tww2The Powers sadistically prey upon an individual's innate—and admirable—senses of honor, duty, and sacrifice for a greater good (as latent as they are in our modern society). They twist and bind the impulses of justice as a means to their own ends.
In reality, none of this demonic activity that destroys precious human life and dignity on a mass scale drives toward any sort of universal, Platonic "greater good", but solely toward the security of Leviathan and its parasitic imperial class.
