Soc325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cherry Picking, Edward S. Herman, Jacques Ellul
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Mass societies and the rise of propaganda continued: mass psychosis people being traumatized, making people in better conditions to take volatile messages more seriously/prominently, economic sanctions after ww1 in germany. Idea of people not being left alone: conditions being built/played on by political parties o, perhaps feeling loyal because of this. Manifest destiny americans: believing in the rights of something, dominant idea/become master symbols/ideals. Walter lippmann (1889 1974: famous journalist influenced by lasswell, people understood complex realities via pictures in their head", democracy requires the manufacture of consent", edward bernays (father of pr and freud"s nephew, the engineering of consent. Somehow we need/already have propaganda in our system. Lippmann and bernays : pragmatist philosopher, education reformer and contemporary of, argued that the views of the former were extremely dangerous, public education methods could enable people to resist propaganda methods, glittering generalities, euphemisms, plain folks.
