manufactured polls become reality for the masses.
Who do they think they’re fooling?
“manufactured polls become reality for the masses.”
“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. A forlorn little drop may settle somewhere and collect grounds on which to determine “The Truth”—but what it obtains is just its truth. The other, the public truth of the moment, which alone matters for effects and successes in the fact-world, is today a product of the press. What the press wills, is true. Its commanders evoke, transform, interchange truths. Three weeks of press work, and the truth is acknowledged by everybody....A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined. Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now, he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels is his liberty.”
Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West, Volume II, authorized translation, 1928