Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion & WW1 Propaganda

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thank you, I suggest you the analysis of Corbett Report of the WW1. Check also Dr Sam Bailey from New Zealand, very very important. Cheers.

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It isn't a question of "learning" or of "making the same mistakes." War and propaganda are inevitable fixtures of a world comprised of differentiated human societies that coexist under anarchic conditions. The narrator (very weirdly) attributes World War I to "old-fashioned realities," including "capital expansion, imperialism, and aristocratic power." This is a strange claim to make -- as though wars between great powers didn't happen prior to the advent of capitalism. But variations on these same themes have occurred since the dawn of human history and have been recorded since the advent of human language. Patterns similar to those just discussed can be found in the records of the ancient Sumerians in the third millennium BCE. This constant historical repetition tells us that -- for all the tremendous changes in human psychology, regime type, economic structure, and cultural/linguistic/religious typology that have occurred over the millennia -- there is something fundamental to the *environment* in which human societies interact that will continue to give rise to war and propaganda for as long as humanity exists. It isn't a case of human fallibility: of gullibility or of ignorance. This is a systemic issue, but there is no overarching "system" to criticize. The "system" here is the state of anarchy in which human societies on Earth happen to coexist. And it isn't just states: similar dynamics can be found at work between individuals, corporations, street gangs; everywhere there is socialization, competition, and no regulating authority that can put people to rights. The same dynamics would no doubt feature in our exchanges with alien civilizations, provided those civilizations weren't sufficiently advanced to squish us antwise in the blink of an eye.

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Reminds me of the story of the WW1 German airship commander who, after returning from missions, would wait until he had read the latest British/Allied newspaper reports before describing and submitting his own report regarding his Zeppelin's mission activity/success.

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[@unknownkingdom]

Also read "Falsehood In Wartime" by Lord Ponsonby from 1928

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I'll admit I'm unfamiliar woth Lippman. But so far seems very similar to what Ponsonby wrote abouy from the British perspective

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@12:29 Lippmann creates the Platform that is exposed in Book by Fredy Perlman

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[@edwardlouisbernays2469]

I heard of Walter Lippmann studying Ivy Lee and Edward L. Bernays. I can even remember hearing Lippmann on the Radio when I was a child. It would be of interest to connect Walter Lippmann with the Dulles Brother, John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles, during WW2 these brothers were central lawyers in the U.S. Corporations actively profiting In Germany during the War. There is great voluminous works on the U.S. State Department , Lippmann, The Corporations profit from Trading with the Enemies, and The Nanjing Massacre or of Nanjing (alternately written as the Nanking Massacre or of Nanking) was an episode of mass murder and mass committed by Imperial troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China, during the Second Sino- War

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What is the genre of music playing in the beginning?

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shangaan electro

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We've been silenced & defeated, and don't even acknowledge it. There is something wrong with this place.

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Lippmann is putting the cart before the horse. Public opinion is dumb because compulsory state schooling stupefies every generation. “They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.” ― John Milton Take compulsory schooling out of the hands of government bureaucrats and let teaching professionals, parents, and students decide how to help people to learn to think independently of established authority.

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