Definition of Propaganda

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/999137/posts ^ | October 12,2003 | self

[calebcar]

The function of this propaganda was not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. To have the grossest lies poured into your ears and eyes all the time, day and night, and yet not to protest their untruth, but on the contrary to participate in their propagation, and to behave as if you believed they were true -- that is the ultimate dehumanization of man, for it robs him of meaningful language.

Theodore Dalrymple National Post October 10, 2003 Their Words are as Plastic as Their Cutlery

[calebcar]

Wonderful article. But these words toward the end hit me like a rocket. I can think of many situations where I could have used this quote rather than maintaining silence or argued some useless point.

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[Reactionary]

Mmm... That quote has to be from Hannah Arendt.