Showing results for "Propaganda" in Philosophy

In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy - particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality - and how it has damaged democracies of the past.

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This is Muttley, from Muttley and The Marauders speaking.Through the medium of spoken word, poetry and music, Reality Propaganda conveys my views of the world in which we live. It is a solopsistic outlook; solopsism is the idea that only your own mind is sure to exist. It holds that knowledge of anything outside of your own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. The bottom line, these are my thoughts and everyone else is wrong.Punk rock, hip hop, football, cute dogs and extreme violence,,, what more could you want. Hosted on ...

First he considers moments in history - Periclean Athens, the English Civil War, the American and French Revolutions, among them - in which the challenges we face today were first encountered and what solutions, however imperfect, were found. Then he lays bare the specific problems of democracy in the 21st century and maps out a set of urgently needed reforms. With the advent of authoritarian leaders and the simultaneous rise of populism, representative democracy appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place, yet it is this space that it must occupy, says Grayling, if a civilised society that looks after all its people is to flourish.

The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. In On Disinformation, Lee McIntyre shows how the war on facts began, and how ordinary citizens can fight back against the scourge of disinformation that is now threatening the very fabric of our society.