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One Idea to Rule Them All

Reverse Engineering American Propaganda

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One Idea to Rule Them All

Written by: Michelle Stiles
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What if there are identifiable shortcuts your brain utilizes to create settled beliefs in small local communities, and what if those shortcuts could be “hacked” in a technological society to influence you in ways you can’t easily perceive?

While many are prone to think of propaganda as lies or distortions, there are techniques crafted and refined since the early 1900s that make that simplistic notion laughable.

Your ignorance of these techniques and the idea bullies use them give them vast power over your future, your finances, and your children.

Idea bullying is one group’s ability to win consistently in the marketplace of ideas. With enough money, well-connected friends, and the techniques just mentioned no other ideas can compete.

Democracy becomes calcified in orthodoxy—one idea to rule them all. Historically, this has been called manufacturing of consent, crystallizing public opinion, public relations, and just plain old “propaganda.”

Learn how the roots of stagecraft and story narrative have displaced an objective search for truth, and why this abuse of language is always the first sign of tyranny.

©2022 Michelle Stiles (P)2023 Michelle Stiles Ideologies & Doctrines Popular Culture
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Extremely well presented and entertaining.

One of my main areas of interest is in propaganda and thought-reform. Even though I knew a lot of this info I think the book was exceptionally well put together, easy to listen to, entertaining, and packed with impactful examples of how / who rules the minds of the anglosphere, particularly North Americans.
I think this book would be a terrific choice for people new to the topic.

My only hesitation is towards the end with the recommended news sites and commentators. I disagree that most of those can or should be trusted fully.

As a side note which applies to almost all audiobooks, I wish there were appropriately placed pauses, perhaps with some quiet, neutral instrumental music. The mind needs those pauses, otherwise the voice, no matter how pleasing, becomes grating.

Great book. I have listened to it twice!

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