Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

a confusion between judgments of probability and judgments of value.

propaganda and decide to utilize it will inevitably employ the most effective organization and methods.*7

expressing stupidities to not expressing any opinion:

And the individual does not want information, but only value judgments and preconceived positions.

Modern man worships “facts”—that is, he accepts “facts” as the ultimate reality. He is convinced that what is, is good. He believes that facts in

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.

Physically and psychologically uprooted,

is caught between his desire and his inability, which he refuses to accept.

opinion,