"In regard to propaganda the early advocates of……" — Aldous Huxley

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a… - Aldous Huxley

"In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."

— Aldous Huxley

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