#36 - Propaganda: Rationalization & The Religious Mind

The Toddzilla X-Pod

Aug 02, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 36

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Episode description

The conclusion of Ellul's "Psychological Crystallization" featuring the makeup of its slogans & how they're used to replace thought. Also, collective belief and obsessions, self-justification/rationalizations and how they spawn the self-righteous Puritan, the closing of the crystallized mind, propaganda's religious personality, and the bizarre media phenomenon: monetizing your mind rape.

ALSO:

- Marianne Williamson: The New Trump?

- Introducing the father of American propaganda: Edward Bernays

- They know you better than you know yourself

- Propaganda's side-effects and how they mirror the '60's definition of "neurosis"

Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747

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