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C. S. Lewis in “That Hideous Strength” speaking through Miss Hardcastle to Mr. Studdock about how propaganda and social conditioning happens.
It seems to me this has held true nearly a century later.
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It seems to me this has held true nearly a century later.
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“Don’t you understand anything? Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That’s how things get done?”
Mr. Studdock responded: “I don’t believe you can do that. Not with the papers that are read by educated people.”
Miss Hardcastle: “That shows you’re still in the nursery, lovey. Haven’t you yet realized that it’s the other way round?”
Studdock: “How do you mean?”
Miss Hardcastle: “That shows you’re still in the nursery, lovey. Haven’t you yet realized that it’s the other way round?”
Studdock: “How do you mean?”
Hardcastle: “Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles.”
“He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. “
“But the educated people public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”
