If you wish the sympathy
of the broad masses, you
must tell them the crudest
& most stupid things,
& it is quite a special secret
pleasure how the people
around us fail to realize
what is really
happening to them,
& make the lie big,
make it simple,
keep saying it,
and eventually
they will
believe it.
& all propaganda must be
popular and its intellectual
level must be adjusted to
the most limited intelligence
amongst those it is
addressed to,
& history comes around
& many of the tried &
trusted methods for
running things just
keep on making
that eternal return
don't they.
Mar 13, 2017
Mar 13, 2017 at 1:33 PM UTC
If you wish the sympathy
of the broad masses, you
must tell them the crudest
& most stupid things,
& it is quite a special secret
pleasure how the people
around us fail to realize
what is really
happening to them,
& make the lie big,
make it simple,
keep saying it,
and eventually
they will
believe it.
& all propaganda must be
popular and its intellectual
level must be adjusted to
the most limited intelligence
amongst those it is
addressed to,
& history comes around
& many of the tried &
trusted methods for
running things just
keep on making
that eternal return
don't they.
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