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Relying on propaganda for social stability is a recipe for authoritarianism.


Everyone relies on propaganda, authoritarian or not.


You sure? American society is full of propaganda and yet it doesn’t feel very authoritarian to me ...


One could make the argument that the US of today is far more authoritarian than it was 100 years ago before the concept of propaganda was industrialized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays




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