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Re: WORLD GOVERNMENT

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From: Robin Collins
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:55
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In article <1992Aug17.204231.27166@news.unomaha.edu> trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:
>     
>Citizens become more susceptable to propaganda precisely because they
>     lack a good education.  With T.V. and commercial magazines doing 
>     the thinking for them, people are killing off their minds, 
>     strangling the very thing that could protect them from irrational
>     pinheads with a presuasive voice and power on the mind.  So, what
>     can we do then?  Keep T.V. from the people?  Regulate the hours
>     a station can run programming?  I don't know.  Any suggestions?


How do you explain the fact that one of the most educated and sophisticated
populations in the world at the time, was victim to propaganda despite
its education (Germany, 1930s).
In this context, how would you suggest that such a decline into barbarism
might be prevented?

Frank.
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From: robinc@bnr.ca (Robin Collins)
Subject: Re: WORLD GOVERNMENT
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