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#Ellul's education as #PrePropaganda?
> .. #JohnPetrocelli found evidence to support that beyond the #DunningKrugerEffect, bullshitting tends to happen when there’s social pressure to provide an opinion and a social “pass” that will allow someone to get away with it... in an #America where people felt entitled if not obligated to offer “opinions about everything,” and politics in particular, and where objective reality was often denied in favor of voicing impassioned personal opinions.
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... education is largely identical with what Ellul calls “pre-propaganda”—the conditioning of minds with vast amounts of incoherent information, already dispensed for ulterior purposes and posing as “facts” and as “education.” Ellul follows through by designating intellectuals as virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda, for three reasons:
1. they absorb the largest amount of secondhand, unverifiable information;
2. they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information;
3. they consider themselves capable of “judging for themselves.” They literally need propaganda.
In fact, the need for propaganda on the part of the “propagandee” is one of the most powerful elements of Ellul’s thesis.

Assuming an attitude in the reader is a good way of putting it there.