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"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
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"I still ask myself why did you watched the film Paranormal Activity the all parts or the film "The VIsit" 2015. Both were home made and not big deal even stupid, you even watch football + you play one game over and over and over, you play stupid games + you watch stupid stuff and after all you still ask yourself why you are stupid. The answer is somewhere here, search it!"
"Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead."
"The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'."
"The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story."
"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."
"Social media was designed to SHARE what you're doing and who you are, not BE what you're doing and be who you are."
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"The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation."
"For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived."
"In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act."
"All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis."
"The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief."
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment."
"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
"The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor."
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