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bluejayreads's review
I was expecting this book to be about how propaganda works. The psychology behind it being effective, why it's so insidious, how nobody is immune to its influences but a few tips you can use to be more aware of it or idenitify if what you're seeing is actually propaganda, maybe some case studies of propaganda campaigns and why they worked and what they did. I was, however, very wrong.
This is a work of political philosophy. It's about how the bad kind of propganda (he tries to make a distinction between regular propaganda and bad propaganda but I didn't really understand the difference) undermines liberal democracy. Philosophy can be interesting, but I am not much into politics and I don't understand political philosophy at all really. I can't discuss the content of this book ecause it was hard to focus on and I had very little idea what it was talking about.
This is an academic work more than anything else. I'm not saying that lay people should never read academic works (I'm currently reading an academic work about women's dress in modern India, and it's fascinating), but I am not interested in academic works of political philosophy. I had expected it to be more of a psychology book for the average person. I don't think it's a bad book, and for someone interested in political philosophy it will probably be quite good. It just wasn't what I wanted or expected.
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Minor: Racism
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