![]() ![]() The vast majority of people, perhaps 90% percent, know how to read, but do not exercise their intelligence beyond this. But to talk about critical faculties and discernment is to talk about something far above primary education and to consider a very small minority. ![]() Outside of that, reading has no meaning (and even destroys certain automatic qualities of memory and observation). All this is debatable, for the important thing is not to be able to read, but to understand what one reads, to reflect on and judge what one reads. People used to think that learning to read evidenced human progress they still celebrate the decline of illiteracy as a great victory they condemn countries with a large proportion of illiterates they think that reading is a road to freedom. A base is needed - for example, education a man who cannot read will escape most propaganda, as will a man who is not interested in reading. We are not speaking here of intelligence some primitive tribes are surely intelligent, but have an intelligence foreign to our concepts and customs. Propaganda cannot succeed where people have no trace of Western culture. ![]() In addition to a certain living standard, another condition must be met: if man is to be successfully propagandized, he needs at least a minimum of culture. Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes. ![]()
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