This is from Konrad Kellen's introduction to Jacques Ellul's book 'Propaganda'.
Ellul...designat[es] intellectuals as virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda for three reasons: (1) they absorb the largest amount of secondhand, unverifiable information; (2) they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information; (3) they consider themselves capable of 'judging for themselves'. They literally need propaganda.
After that, am I supposed to lay out some opinion on the issues of the day? Maybe tomorrow.
EPISTEME: December 2023
2 days ago
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Yes, this is very good. It reminds me of Hayek's saying that intellectuals are "second-hand dabblers in ideas." So true.
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