Several email newsletters I receive include a Quote of the Day. Some are funny, some profound, and some just wrong, IMHO. In this blog I will express my opinions when one strikes me as particularly obnoxious, or perhaps especially good.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Aldous Huxley, novelist
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Perhaps the original context of this statement made it clear that Huxley was talking about particular propagandists, but standing alone, this isn't true because it is too sweeping. Often propagandists have other purposes, sometimes even noble.
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