ENGB76H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Daniel Levitin, Donald Rumsfeld, Diegesis
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Josephn goebbels - if you tell a big enough lie, and you tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Adolf hitler - mein kampf - his playbook. > even though the facts which disprove large-scale falsehoods may be brought clearly to the minds of the masses, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the glossy impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known. Brave new world - dystopian utopian world. chemicals put in their incubation. > what is fiction? what is fact? film: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. > seemlingly unmotivated doc who think he"s doing something right. > misinformation propagtes as one person passes it on to another and another. > book on how easy it is to be lied to. Donald rumsfeld (us secretary of defense under george w. bush, jr. )
