Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
And the individual does not want information, but only value judgments and preconceived positions.
Jacques Ellul • Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
a confusion between judgments of probability and judgments of value.
Jacques Ellul • Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Physically and psychologically uprooted,
Jacques Ellul • Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
propaganda and decide to utilize it will inevitably employ the most effective organization and methods.*7
Jacques Ellul • Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
expressing stupidities to not expressing any opinion:
Jacques Ellul • Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
themselves provide evidence and proof, and he willingly subordinates values to them; he obeys what he believes to be necessity, which he somehow connects with the idea of progress.
Jacques Ellul • Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
“preponderant”
Jacques Ellul • Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
inadmissible intellectual surrender.
Jacques Ellul • Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
is caught between his desire and his inability, which he refuses to accept.