Propaganda isn't what you may think. Ellul's ideas on pre-propaganda, propaganda's conditioned reflexes, myths, and "orthopraxy". Including the triggering of active and passive act...
Archive for July 2019
Jul 30th, 2019
#34 - Propaganda: Manufacturing Proselytes & Militants
Jul 28th, 2019
#33 - Propaganda's Mindcrime
More on agitation propaganda and the psychological effects of propaganda including: loss of individuality, suppression of critical thought, creation of the mob and how critical tho...
Jul 25th, 2019
#32 - Spinning Mueller & The Sacred Cows
Congressional grandstanding for the cameras, Mueller's testimony: viewed and spun in parallel universes, deciding whether to read the report, voting your own self-interest (Yes! Do...
The extreme left's totalitarian purity test and its search for Utopia's messiah; self-righteous moral certainty and the narcissistic narratives of the secular humanist religion. Th...
Jul 19th, 2019
#30 - Renouncing Patriotism And The Nationalist Boomerang
Todd, Chris, and Rich discuss how the left always inadvertently triggers heated nationalism with its self-defeating renouncement of patriotism and Zinnification: exploiting idealis...
Jul 17th, 2019
#29 - Guidance Is Internal
Chris & Rich sit in on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. We discuss the achievement, the courage of those undertaking it, and how subsequent generations were cheated of their ...
Jul 8th, 2019
#28 - Wordknapping, Propaganda's Effects, A Reckoning
"He who defines is your master." More on twisting definitions as a malicious propaganda tool, how institutional propaganda systems affect a population, and where a species obliviou...
Jul 5th, 2019
#27 - Propaganda: Agenda + Journalism
Definitions, journalism as a euphemism for propaganda, Amash goes rogue, Antifa gets played by Patreon's punching bag, I have a creative reparations solution, FOX gets savvy and be...
Jul 3rd, 2019
#26 - Broken Beasts of Intellectual Burden
A digital detox update and re-connecting with the organic world, Trump's 4th of July spectacle and the predictable "outrage", why I'm rooting against the US women's soccer team, th...