The Devil in a Forest

brunians at brunians.org · 19 May 2009, 01:38 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:38:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) The Devil in a Forest
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> I'm grateful for this discussion, because when I read tDiaF I thought it
> was just a quaint, but obvious, morality tale. Now, I realize that it isn't
> so "on the nose" at all. It's actually a quite exquisite bit of propaganda
> (unlike say "Atlas Shrugged"). Truly masterful propaganda is one where the
> audience doesn't realize it's being propagandized.

Really good propaganda will have people denying that it is propaganda.

I find it very interesting that many of the people who disagree with
Wolfe's politics argue that it is not there. Socialism is, when it comes
down to it, a process of pretending that the World is different from the
way it actually is.





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