Friday, July 16, 2010

7/16/20-10

Joseph Goebbels employed a simple, but highly cynical set of rules.
* There is no truth, only what people believe to be true.
* Control people’s perceptions of the world and you can control their beliefs.
* A big lie is as believable as a small one.
* Tell people what they want to hear; give them simple solutions to complex problems, enemies on whom they can blame their discontents, and promises to satisfy their narrow aspirations… 
~ Joseph Goebbels
Nazi propaganda minister
jj's genestock (so far):

?? Sir Joshua Reynolds. None of us can be directly descended from him (as he had no children) He had 11 brothers and sisters: The parents were Samuel Reynolds and Theophila Potter and the 12 children were: Humphrey (b. 1712); Robert; Mary (1716); Anne (1717); Jane (1718); Elizabeth (1720); Joshua (1723); Robert (1724); 
Theophila (1725); Samuel (1727); Frances (1729); Martyn (1731). 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday


"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods." 
Aldous Huxley, 1959


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