We will read and write about how political and commercial propaganda threatens our freedoms and threatens to corrupt us. This course seeks to provide students with the critical tools necessary for survival in the Information Age.
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
"No one can say that your propaganda is too crude or low or brutal, or that it is not decent enough, for those are not the relevant characteristics. Its purpose is not to be decent, or gentle, or weak, or modest; it is to be successful."
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda
"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it."
Edward Bernays
