“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth”. ` Joseph Goebbels

Started by wally, February 19, 2018, 07:41:43 AM

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wally

Which are the specific principles of Goebbels' propaganda that make him stand apart?

There are lots of them, but what he will be remembered by is the famous, almost apocryphal statement: "Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth". This is what modern mass communication is based on. Although, I would like to paraphrase Dr Goebbels and say: Repeat a message a thousand times and it becomes the truth. Hence a very clear conclusion – there is no truth. All information is irrelevant. History and all media messages are mere narratives. Truth is what you choose to believe in. Such mechanism works in 99 percent of the cases. No one ever bothers to think whether the toothpaste that is advertised as most efficient during the night really is such. No, we choose to believe what the advertisement says and cannot check the validity of the claims. This is what the power of media relies heavily on. The thick layer around the planet made of interwoven media that send messages to the receiver every day. "
http://www.goebbels.info/press/macasev-danas.html

The Trump/Russia collusion story is beginning to fall apart, yet the ' True Believers ' have been so brain washed that they can not and will not ever see the forest through the trees.  Sad!

" " Hoffer says that mass movements begin when discontented, frustrated, powerless people lose faith in existing institutions and demand change. Feeling hopeless, such people participate in movements that allow them to become part of a larger collective. They become true believers in a mass movement that "appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation."   
https://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/09/04/summary-of-eric-hoffers-the-true-believer/
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
~ Nikita Khrushchev

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

~Ronald Reagan