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Baron Arthur Ponsonby | 10 principles of war propaganda

in Arthur Ponsonby

Wir wollen den Krieg nicht
Das gegnerische Lager trägt die Verantwortung
Der Führer des Gegners ist ein Teufel
Wir kämpfen für eine gute Sache
Der Gegner kämpft mit unerlaubten Waffen
Der Gegner begeht mit Absicht Grausamkeiten, wir nur versehentlich
Unsere Verluste sind gering, die des Gegners enorm
Künstler und Intellektuellen unterstützen unsere Sache
Unsere Mission ist heilig
Wer unsere Berichterstattung in Zweifel zieht, ist ein Verräter.

Christine Prayon | Welke & Co. made “atmosphere against those who think differently”

in Birte Schneider, Christine Prayon

"I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I've also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don't want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against those who think differently. In my opinion, this no longer has anything to do with satire."

Christine Prayon

Robbie Williams | We’re in a post-truth world

in Robbie Williams

"We're in a post-truth world where you can't believe the media, you can't believe Big Pharma, you can't believe politicians, you can't believe what you're eating, you can't believe yourself. Since we've existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it's now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can't trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them,"

Robbie Williams

Winston Churchill | There is only published opinion

in Winston Churchill

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Winston Churchill

Niklas Luhmann | the media don’t depict reality, they create it

in Niklas Luhmann

"Sure, the media don't depict reality, they create it! And that's why we need counter-publicity!"

Niklas Luhmann

Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | The power of radio

in Paul Felix Lazarsfeld

"The power of radio can be compared only with the power of the atomic bomb."

Paul Felix Lazarsfeld

Nicolás Gómez Dávila | In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness

in Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know."

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Prof. Reiner Mausfeld | A ‘war against X’ decreed from above

in Prof. Rainer Mausfeld

"A 'war against X' decreed from above - be it against 'terror' or against a pandemic - is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination."

Prof. Reiner Mausfeld

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion

in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion: no one knows exactly who makes it, no one has ever met it personally, but everyone lets themselves be tyrannized by it!"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Max Goldt | This newspaper is an organ of infamy

"This newspaper is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read it. Someone who contributes to this newspaper is absolutely unacceptable socially. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. One must be as unkind to them as the law will just allow. They are bad people who do wrong."

Max Goldt

Vince Ebert | They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight

"I'm pretty sure: if the climate change thing was miraculously solved, many Germans wouldn't breathe a sigh of relief. They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight."

Vince Ebert

Tony Benn | I think there are two ways in which people are controlled

in Anthony „Tony“ Neil Wedgwood Benn, Tony Benn

"I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people, and secondly, demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And I think there’s an element in the thinking of some people... ‘We don’t want people to be educated, healthy and confident, because they would get out of control."

Tony Benn

Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind

in Edward Bernays

"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it."

Edward Bernays

Dave Smith | basic human liberties

"If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist."

Dave Smith

Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny

in Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

Robert A. Heinlein

Plato | No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

Plato

Charles MacKay | simultaneously impressed with one delusion

in Charles MacKay

"We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."

Charles MacKay

Russel Brand | the mainstream media is not your friend

in Russel Brand

"I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve been wrong many times but I’m beginning to think I’m right about this: the mainstream media is not your friend, the culture is not your friend, the government is not your friend, big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately in unison to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them and disadvantage you."

Russel Brand

Leonard E. Feeney | Having a television in your home

in Leonard E. Feeney

"Having a television in your home is like having a Jew in your living room."

Fr. Leonard E. Feeney

Caroll Quigley | people can throw the rascals out at any election

in Caroll Quigley

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies."

Caroll Quigley

George Orwell | To keep them in control was not difficult

in George Orwell

"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."

George Orwell, 1984

Fred Hoyle | Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.“

Fred Hoyle

Prof. Dr. Michael Meyen | mainstream media are not a mirror of reality

in Prof. Dr. Michael Meyen

"The very first thing we have to understand is that the mainstream media are not a mirror of reality. Not even a distorted mirror of reality, but provide us with a reality that is constructed according to its very own points of view. Which is made to influence us in a certain way."

Prof. Dr. Michael Meyen

José Luis Sampedro | Public opinion is influenced by the media

in José Luis Sampedro

"Public opinion is influenced by the media and the media are in the hands of those who rule and those who rule favor those who say what is convenient for them and erase everything that does not suit them. So public opinion is, above all, media opinion."

José Luis Sampedro

Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke | how natural science is turned into a whore of politics

in Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke

"I'm fed up, or to put it even more clearly: I'm fed up with the permanent and increasingly religious climate gibberish, with energy turnaround fantasies, with electric car worship, with scary stories about doomsday scenarios from Corona to conflagrations to weather catastrophes. I can no longer stand the people who shout this into microphones and cameras every day or print it in newspapers. I suffer from having to witness how natural science is turned into a whore of politics.

I am tired of being told what to be ashamed of by abused, pubescent children. I am tired of being told by some deranged people that I am to blame for everything and everyone - but especially as a German for the past, present and future misery of the whole world. [....]"

Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke ( 28. September 2021 via Facebook )