Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency
约翰·皮尔格:欧洲战争和原始宣传的兴起
最近几周和几个月来像潮水一样滚滚而来的战争歇斯底里就是最引人注目的例子。以其行话而闻名,“塑造叙事”,即使不是大部分,也是纯粹的宣传。