Walter Lippmann: The creation of consent is not a new art. It is a very old one which was supposed to have died out with the appearance of democracy. But it has not died out. It has, in fact, improved enormously in technic, because it is now based on analysis rather than on rule of thumb. And so, as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9455
Walter Lippmann: It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves. We worry about their fate and forget their original content. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9457
Walter Lippmann: Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9458
Walter Lippmann: Chief Factors Limiting Access to Facts: 1) Artificial censorship 2) Limitations of social contact 3) Comparatively meager time in a day for paying attention to public affairs. 4) Distortion arising because events have to be compressed into very short messages 5) Difficulty of making a small vocabulary express a complicated world 6) Fear of facing those facts which would seem to threaten the established routine of men's lives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9459
Walter Lippmann: Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a pseudo-environment that he thinks wise or desirable. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9460
