demoralize the enemy, short circuit his world-interpretation and decision making process….But what precisely, was that technology?”
Television.
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We probably need to include the print media, such as newspapers and once illustrious magazines. The indoctrination and demoralization programmes have been going on for a long time - decades. Time, Newsweek, and most large city newspapers were trusted but became complicit in framing the wrong as right and changing our moral and social framework. At first, it was subtle. They slipped in pejorative adjectives when describing an event, leading the reader to adopt a certain viewpoint. Then, in the last 20-30 years, they completely abandoned any pretext of objectivity by editorializing inside a news report. The ongoing liberal assault through the news, combined with the failure of the educational system to teach critical thinking, led to people being unable to distinguish fact from reality. Those people didn’t even know they were demoralized. Those who weren’t moved by the assault on their thinking processes were left thinking that they were a minority, leading to at least an awareness of their demoralization.
I didn’t re-post the whole post, sorry. The time frame is “post-war Nazi”
Thats is why I specifically chose Television, it became commercially available to the masses right after WWII!
We also got mag tape recording tech (the Magnetophon) from the Germans which leads to the first Videotape machines.