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Below is one example of the suppression of propaganda awareness. At about 56:00 you'll hear Professor Mark Crispin Miller describe how he was harassed and threatened for teaching his popular course on propaganda at New York University. His objective approach--that we should always question assumptions--led to a student's complaint followed up by a memo from colleagues stating that Miller's "conduct" should be examined. Miller, who is usually associated with the Left politically, was accused of "right wing conspiracy theories" because of his commitment to objectivity. We should keep in mind that effective propaganda also requires the censorship of any competing viewpoint. Debate is deadly to propaganda because it leads to awareness of its tactics and the emptiness of its claims. Propagandists are a bit like magicians who jealously guard their tricks. They know that once their illusions are shattered, the game is over. Below are a couple more examples of information that could help ordinary people think independently and understand the dangers of propaganda.  We should ask ourselves why anyone would want to suppress such information. Take a look at this 1986 report on “Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control,” known also as the DIMPAC Report.  It's a partial and unofficial copy of a report that is nearly impossible to find online. In 1982 -- in the wake of the Jonestown massacre-- the American Psychological Association asked Margaret Thaler Singer (author of Cults in Our Midst) to head up a task force to produce this report to help Americans detect and resist cult influences. The APA then aggressively suppressed the report after outside "experts" pressured the APA to do so. The Hidden Persuaders was a 1957 bestseller by Vance Packard who investigated the use of “depth psychology” by advertisers and how they used it to manipulate the emotions of consumers.  Packard’s book was the flashpoint for the first big pushback against public awareness of such tactics.  The American Association of Advertising Agencies went on a campaign to ridicule him. This continued well into the 1980’s when the president of the AAAA claimed that advertising had no such effect on people and that Packard and others who said so were “paranoids.” We continuously see people smeared for speaking against narratives, but it happens on a greater scale now in cyberspace. There are many more examples of shutting down any investigation into the deceptive tactics of propaganda and advertising. It happens everywhere, most famously on college campuses and the media. The organized censorship is meant to keep the public in the dark about those tactics. This website is an attempt to get around that by sparking a lot of conversations about it.

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Professor Lopez and I discussed the current unrest on college campuses. Why do so many students today seem unable or unwilling to engage other points of view? Why do so many feel the need to retreat to “safe spaces” whenever they encounter a word or thought that “triggers” negative emotions? Why are they so incoherent? So hostile? So blindly obedient to leftist agendas? So divorced from reality? To explore these questions, listen in! Professor Lopez, author of Jephthah’s Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for Marriage ‘Equality’ has been targeted and harassed for the past several years by the LGBT lobby. This is not only because of Lopez’s stance against same-sex marriage, but because he has a compelling story of his own: He was raised by lesbians and identifies as bisexual. (He may also be the object of their scorn because he has been faithfully married to the mother of his children for 15 years.) The “diversity” bureaucrats at Cal State Northridge have worked tirelessly to concoct a case against Professor Lopez. The video clip below will give you a brief summary of Professor Lopez’s insights: You can also explore some of the related links on my site. Here’s a post on the program “Bonds that Matter” that Professor Lopez hosted at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library last year. And here’s a previous podcast with Prof Lopez and me on the parallels between the LGBT lobby’s tactics and Bolshevism. Also, here’s a brief review of mine of Jephthah’s Daughter’s. Please order your copy from Amazon today!

Full interview link below. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/stella-morabito-technocratic-totalitarianism-the-impulse-to-conform-and-astroturf-mobs-versus-organic-protest-5385193

On April 4 I had the distinct honor and pleasure of being interviewed by Tucker Carlson about the subject of my book The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. How ironic, then, that with Tucker’s dismissal from FOX News, our hour-long conversation–on the subject of silencing and censorship–was itself silenced. It may well have aired on the FOX Nation Show “Tucker Carlson Today” this past Tuesday, the day after he was gone from FOX. As a bit of consolation, I wrote up the experience for the Federalist. It includes my reaction to the speech Tucker gave just last Friday at Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner, which I had the honor of attending. It was such a profound and hopeful speech. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that his speech–delivered with such heartfelt passion –was one for the ages. Here’s something from it that all Americans should take to heart: “The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become. And the more you lie, the weaker and more terrified you become.” This is so true. The whole purpose of political censorship is to squash our willingness to speak truth. My Federalist essay (I don’t write the headlines!) is titled: I Taped a Show with Tucker on Censorship Right Before he Was Fired. Here’s an excerpt: I believe our discussion was critical to helping more people grasp the human dynamics that lead to the mass misery, loneliness, and dystopian policies we see all around us today. More people must understand that destructive agendas depend upon the human impulse to self-censor. When we shut up or lie about what we believe in hopes of “fitting in,” we give abundant oxygen to tyrannical agendas. But with the exit of Carlson, Fox News is a huge step closer to declaring that it’s completely on board with the media monopoly’s efforts to create the illusion of unanimity of thought. Such illusions are meant to tease out the conformity impulse by making us feel all alone in our views, and, therefore, less likely to express them. But the cancelling of my interview was merely collateral damage in a far bigger picture. In my opinion, Americans’ decades of obedience to political correctness prepared the ground for the tyranny we see around us today. If only we could better understand these dynamics and learn counter-strategies, then we’d be in a better position to disarm those who seek to march us into censorship and ignorance and misery. But I promise to keep talking about this!