Image via WikipediaGeorge Soros on the road ahead
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We left Soros mulling his later-life realization that his lifelong belief in "open society" (as he absorbed the concept from Karl Popper), in the inherent worthiness and practical value of focusing our intellectual energies on understanding reality, can be neutralized when interest groups discover, as American right-wingers did so well, that you can instead focus on manipulating people's beliefs. What surprises him is not that the Republican propaganda machine has resorted to lies, but that it has had such success doing it. "The explanation," he writes, "lies partly in the power of Orwell’s Newspeak and partly in the aversion of the public to facing harsh realities."
On the one hand, Newspeak is extremely difficult to contradict because it incorporates and thereby preempts its own contradiction, as when Fox News calls itself fair and balanced. Another trick is to accuse your opponent of the behavior of which you are guilty, like Fox News accusing me of being the puppet master of a media empire. Skillful practitioners always attack the strongest point of their opponent, like the Swiftboat ads attacking John Kerry’s Vietnam War record. Facts do not provide any protection, and rejecting an accusation may serve to have it repeated; but ignoring it can be very costly, as John Kerry discovered in the 2004 election.
Nazi propaganda prevailed in the Weimar Republic because the public had been humiliated by military defeat and disoriented by runaway inflation. In its own quite different way, the American public has been subjected to somewhat comparable experiences, first by the terrorist attacks of September 11, and then by the financial crisis, which not only caused material hardship but also seemed to seal the decline of the United States as the dominant power in the world. With the rise of China occurring concurrently, the shift in power and influence has been dramatic.
The two trends taken together -- the reluctance to face harsh reality coupled with the refinement in the techniques of deception -- explain why America is failing to meet the requirements of an open society. Apparently, a society needs to be successful in order to remain open.
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Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone
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Real-time dots! June 3, 2011
Posted by ClustrMaps Team in : Uncategorized , trackback We’re pleased to announce the roll-out of real-time dots for your maps, updated every single minute around the clock.
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It may be a little late in the day to talk about Michael Ignatieff, the scholarly gentleman at the helm of the good ship Liberal when it foundered a few weeks back. But something he said during his town hall meeting in Victoria's Crystal Garden has been niggling away in my mind since that evening me
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The Senate's so-called "rogue page" is standing up to criticism from both sides of the political divide following her silent protest during Friday's speech from the throne.
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Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park .
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will outline a program for his freshly seated parliamentary majority today that will include plans to rein in spending, diversify trade and attract more foreign capital to protect the country from being damaged by a faltering U.S. recovery.
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A day after refusing to allow Calgary-based TransCanada Corp., to restart its massive Keystone pipeline, the U.S. government gave the company the green light Saturday, saying the line carrying oil from Alberta into the States can resume under "restricted conditions" as early as this weekend.
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Hours after the Yemen’s president flew to Saudi Arabia for treatment of wounds sustained in a rocket attack, thousands of demonstrators flocked to the streets of the capital Sunday to celebrate what they billed as the latest ouster of an Arab autocrat.
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I came across this piece of propaganda/advertising, call it what you will, below, and was attracted to it by the medium as opposed to the cause. I love when you find such inventive techniques being used, for whatever reason. The video does all the explaining so I shall just leave you with that, but any Scottish organisations wanting to make a statement, then I suggest you take note! This would definitely be an interesting and effective medium on our rainy Scottish streets:
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