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i never fully read this text until just now but ... this statement, attributed to Joseph Goebbels:

“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.”

literally says, in the punchline, that truth is the greatest enemy of the State...

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unit 6mo ago

Goebbels learned Propaganda from the American Ad Man, Edward Bernays

He wrote the book Propaganda, which was renamed to Public Relations

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A. T. Mechanicus 6mo ago

Propaganda and Crystalizing Public Opinion should be required reading.

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ContrarianAgrarian 6mo ago

https://archive.org/details/edward-bernays-texts

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