09-17-2018, 07:33 AM
(09-16-2018, 10:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Facebook may be powerful, but my use of it seems impotent. People do not change their minds as a result of what I write, any more than they do here, or anywhere else before. I don't notice much mind-shifting going on these days among anyone else either.
So what difference does it make how fast or how far we can communicate, if we can't communicate?
Trump's people and his Russian backers were initially successful in finding ways to exploit its potential for propaganda. But we are catching on. The propaganda faces diminishing returns as people find out that they have been taken if they did not reject it initially.
To achieve his agenda, Trump needs a near-dictatorship, which he is not getting.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.