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“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values”…
— Marshall McLuhan
“The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action”…
—Jacques Ellul
“The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality. In other words, one destroyed the dignity of human thought, whereas the others destroy the dignity of human action. The old manipulators of logic were the concern of the philosopher, whereas the modern manipulators of facts stand in the way of the historian. For history itself is destroyed, and its comprehensibility — based upon the fact that it is enacted by men and therefore can be understood by men — is in danger whenever facts are no longer held to be part and parcel of the past and present world, and are misused to prove this or that opinion”…
― Hannah Arendt
Newspeak
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it”…
— George Orwell
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Footnote:
Google and Gemini [ LINK ] - DEI Hivemind [ LINK ]
UK and the Pandemic [ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ LINK ]
Project Fear [ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ LINK ]
Counter Disinformation Unit [ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ Podcast - LINK ]
Canada - Propaganda Techniques [ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ LINK ]
Speech Crimes [ LINK ]