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https://canadianliberty.com/notes-on-propaganda-by-jacques-ellul-6/
-Summary of Propaganda -
Purposes of propaganda:
i) Psychological action: to modify opinions.
ii) Psychological warfare: to destroy the opponent’s morale, to cause him to “doubt the validity of his beliefs …”.
iii) Reeducation and brainwashing methods for prisoners (see Appendix 2 on Mao).
iv) Public and human relations: to “adapt” a person to a type of society, or to a “living standard” or to an “activity”… (pg. xiii).
Main Goal: Provoke Action without Thought
The goal of propaganda in modern times is to “provoke action”, to “arouse an active and mythical belief” (25). Myth has the power to drive people to action, as opposed to passive ideology (116). Effective propaganda short-circuits “all thought and decision” (27).
The “great feat of propaganda is to cause the progression from thought to action artificially” (208).
In our jobs, we don’t think for ourselves. Our actions are mechanized (28). Schedules, rules and patterns are imposed on the worker for efficiency. Instead of thinking, the individual dissociates, which effects other parts of his life (180).
Propaganda is Totalitarian
Propaganda is practiced by an “aristocracy of technicians” (241). The propagandist studies our behavior and applies formulas (3). Psychological theories are tested via propaganda (5), including “the conditioned reflex and the myth” (31).
Man is “surrounded” by propaganda. No part of his life is left alone (10). It takes over “every moment” of his life (17). He adopts a “totalitarian attitude” because the action of propaganda is totalitarian. It “excludes contradiction and discussion”. Opposition must become “negligible” (11).
Propaganda “will take over literature (present and past) and history …” (14).
“Every event in our society supposes the allegiance or approval of all, and such participation in mind or action can be obtained only by propaganda. The fact that it is utilized in so many different fields shows that our society is in the process of becoming a total society, e.g. a society in which no single act can be a matter of indifference; every act and feeling assumes a political character; no act is purely personal” (290).
Pre-propaganda and Education
Pre-propaganda or conditioning is necessary for propaganda to work. (15) Education conditions the young (vi, 13, 84). Learning to read prepares you for propaganda (108, 109). To be free, you must be able to think critically about what you read (108).
Propaganda Adapts us to the Technological Society
“Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (xvii).
The goal is to adjust “the normal man to a technological environment – to the increasing pace, the working hours, the noise, the crowded cities, the tempo of work, … never-changing daily routine, the lack of personal accomplishment, the absence of an apparent meaning in life, the family insecurity … the anonymity…” (143).
Other reasons for propaganda: helping modern man to accept an all-pervasive work-life, enormous taxes and brutal wars (140-142).
“As in all propaganda, the point is to make man endure, with the help of psychological narcotics, what he could not endure naturally …” (225).
“In the midst of increasing mechanization and technological organization, propaganda is simply the means used to prevent these things from being felt as too oppressive and to persuade man to submit with good grace. When man will be fully adapted to this technological society, when he will end by obeying with enthusiasm, convinced of the excellence of what he is forced to do, the constraint of the organization will no longer be felt by him …” (xviii).
Media
The man “immersed in current affairs” is “at the mercy of the propagandist”. News propaganda must not permit “time for thought or reflection” (46, 47).
Pure information can be propaganda (113). The reader is hypnotized by data which eliminates “personal judgment and the capacity to form one’s own opinion …” (87).
Propaganda presents “solutions” to the “problems” presented as information (114).
Isolation, Weakening of Old Groups, Use of New Groups
In modern society, man is most vulnerable to propaganda when he feels isolated in the mass (8, 9, 90).
Mao’s objective was to detach individuals “from the old groups, such as the family or traditional village organizations. These groups must be disintegrated …” (308). Then his next objective was to use “horizontal propaganda” to encircle everyone (84) with the new groups (81), integrating individuals into the new society.
