Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Another Phony Crisis
[Ed. note: With the flurry of questions rolling in after last weekend's pro-immigrant demonstrations, we thought it might help to address the confusion first.]
Unreasonable anxiety and fear over immigrants is manufactured the same way it is on other social issues--by social movement entrepreneurs.
Americans do not as a rule inform themselves or analyze facts; rather, they, by and large, shop for pre-formed opinions that they in turn make their own through habitual usage. That's why propaganda professionals like Goebbels and Buchanan use pervasive repetition of lies as a tool of indoctrination; it works.
Unreasonable anxiety and fear over immigrants is manufactured the same way it is on other social issues--by social movement entrepreneurs.
Americans do not as a rule inform themselves or analyze facts; rather, they, by and large, shop for pre-formed opinions that they in turn make their own through habitual usage. That's why propaganda professionals like Goebbels and Buchanan use pervasive repetition of lies as a tool of indoctrination; it works.
