Vintage, p. xviii
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962)
“The civic and technological good will and the enthusiasm for the right social myths — both created by propaganda — will finally have solved the problem of man.”
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)
Context: In the midst of increasing mechanization and technological organization, propaganda is simply the means used to prevent these things from being felt as too oppressive and to persuade man to submit with good grace. When man will be fully adapted to this technological society, when he will end by obeying with enthusiasm, convinced of the excellence of what he is forced to do, the constraint of the organization will no longer be felt by him; the truth is, it will no longer be a constraint, and the police will have nothing to do. The civic and technological good will and the enthusiasm for the right social myths — both created by propaganda — will finally have solved the problem of man.
Vintage, p. xviii
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From the Vintage paperback (1973), p. xvii
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)
Context: Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.
From the Vintage paperback (1973), p. xvii
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962)
Neil Postman
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Context: Even when the problem of the access to technology is solved so that anyone who wishes can have access to technology, there still remains a problem. For example, just about anyone has access to a public library (at least in America). In that library we find the greatest, most profound, most illuminating literature that human beings have so far produced. Do most people read these books? Have you read Cervantes? Have you read the sonnets of Shakespeare? Have you read Hegel or Nietzsche? Their books are in the library, you have access to them, why have you not familiarized yourself with this literature? (Even if you have, I think you will agree that most people have not. Why?)
"Simpler Social Problems Have Proved Intractable", paragraph 138
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
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Robert M. Pirsig
(1928–2017) American writer and philosopher
NPR Interview (1974)
Immanuel Kant
(1724–1804) German philosopher
Seventh Thesis
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Source: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
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“BoP consumer problems cannot be solved with old technologies.”
Source: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, 2009, p. 26
Russell Baker
(1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States
"The Big Problem Binge," The New York Times (1965-03-18)