National Geographic reaired their 9/11 interview with George W. Bush this morning.
Bush: "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - May 24, 2005
This reminded us of another famous quote which is similar to Bush's.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels, Hiter's Nazi Propaganda Minister.
Source:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/bushism_keep_repeating_catapult_propaganda.htm
The “Big Lie” and Propaganda
First this: The “Big Lie”
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas in disguise.
Propaganda has only one object, to conquer the masses. Every means that furthers that aim is good; every means that hinders it is bad … You can make a man believe anything if you tell it to him in the right way … Nothing is easier than leading the people on a leash. I just hold up a dazzling campaign poster and they jump through it…
The people must begin to think as one unit, react as such, and put themselves at the disposal of the government wholeheartedly…To belabour the people so long until they succumb to us. ~ (Paul) Josef Göbbels
Source:
http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-big-lie-and-propaganda/
Propaganda
A modern definition is the systematic, widespread dissemination or promotion of particular ideas, doctrines, or practices, meant to further a particular cause or agenda and weaken that of another; it is a systematic effort to manipulate attitudes, beliefs, or actions by the use of symbols. It is commonly used to describe any deceptive or distorted accounts, usually as a dismissive, disparaging, and pejorative term, which in its broadest sense, can be and is applied to any account one does not agree with...
Today, with the negative, Nazi-esque connotation which comes with that word, euphemisms such as misinformation, disinformation, image consulting, political consulting, news consulting, advertising, infomercials, public relations, damage control, and the art of spin have taken its place in the English lexicon, all but concealing its true nature and omnipresence. And omnipresent, it is. The industries that deal with information control – in both the commercial and governmental sectors—work with hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Uninformed, ignorant masses are far easier to manipulate than educated, thinking masses.
Source:
http://greyfalcon.us/Hitler%20and%20the.htm
Picture at top taken by blog contributor "ataviisms" in the NYC subway. Here are his photography and 9/11 websites.
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History Repeats Itself
