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- From: trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre)
- Subject: Re: WORLD GOVERNMENT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.175317.5421@news.unomaha.edu>
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <1992Aug14.143704.9519@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:53:17 GMT
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- gary@ke4zv.uucp writes:
-
- > > ii) "How does one get billions of people to agree?"
- > >
- > > Mass media. It's happening now and will progress as time
- > > passes by. How do you think tens of millions of people
- > > can agree now on a single subject?
- >
- > Ah Herr Goebbels would be delighted, as would Coca Cola's ad agency.
- > If you don't understand propaganda, and the way mass media can be
- > used to further it, talk to an ad man or watch some WWII movies.
- > It's easy to sway people to a point of view. What's hard is to
- > have a sophisticated and educated populace that recognizes bovine
- > waste when it sees it.
-
- If you're dumb enough to be fooled by propaganda (or the Coca-Cola
- company), then I feel sorry for you. You make a good point,
- however: education is the best way to help society protect
- itself from the blatherings and blubberings of political
- and/or religious propaganda. It would be a good tool in
- creating a more unified, and informed, world.
-
- > Gary
-
- Stephen @Trajan
-