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Me: “So I’m going to wind down today with a hot mug of ginger tea and make some progress on that book on the history of pragmatic thought …” Also me, two hours later (after the entire civil war section of the book): “what the actual fuck.”

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Seems remain to a book that I'm spending a few hours with today, coffee and hand. Holmes sounds like he'd view propaganda as an indespensible tool for governance. He and Ellul might not get along very well.

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I should learn to highlight pictures for twitter. I wanted to draw attention to the line 5 down from the heading: "the individual is of no interest to the propagandist; as an isolated unit he presents much too much resistance to external action."

Cedric Chin

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Eh, I read everything on the page 😬

5:20 PM · Oct 25, 2020Twitter Web App

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Then have the next page. Also talking about the individual, And how dim of the view of the individual a propagandist has.

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Lastly, from the preface, this 🔥 take: "intellectuals are virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda... They literally need propaganda."