Propaganda! | paradoxa's Blog

The following are segmented extracts from Jacques Ellul’s book “The Technological Society.” They are taken from the sub-section “Propaganda,” where he elaborates on scientifically designed methods of moving the masses in a desired direction; “their” (Puppet-Masters) direction.

p. 366-367: “In addition, human emotions such as hate and resentment are exploited….The will to self-justification, which is latent in every individual, can also be exploited. It involves the need for a scapegoat; but individuals have difficulty finding a personal scapegoat. Propaganda offers them a collective goat to which they are able to transfer evil and sin, thereby feeling justified, authenticated, and purified….we no longer have to create for ourselves enemies to slay. We have enemies, ready-made for us by propaganda, whom it is lawful to kill.”

p. 371: “Men fashion images of things…..These images are based on news items which, as is the case in much of the world, are “faked.” Their purpose is to form rather than to inform.”

p. 372: “….Man will be led to act from real motives that are scientifically directed….he will be brought to sacrifice himself in a real world, but for the sake of the verbal universe which has been fashioned for him….the essence of propaganda is to act upon the human subconscious but to leave men the illusion of complete freedom.”

p. 375: “Through propaganda, we can train a man not to kill or not to drink alcohol; or we can train him to kill or to smoke opium.”

It is clear that, from the above statements, provided by an authorised economist, these are the very methods that were used prior, during and after 9/11. A sadistic governmental (Puppet-Master slaves) attack on their own citizens. Their way of implanting the “reality” of TERRORISM in the minds of the masses. It worked quite well, didn’t it? Or did it?  

As H. G. Wells puts it; “We are all trained to distrust and hate foreigners, salute our flag, stiffen up in a wooden obedient way at our national anthem, and prepare to follow the little fellows in spurs and feathers who pose as the heads of our states into the most horrible common destruction.”

If we all helped each other, there wouldn’t be an apparent need for government. We don’t need them; THEY NEED US!