Random question

[jack_ryder]

Occurred to me this morning:

How come there's lots of ethical and moral questions about using results from Nazi science, but none that I know of about using Nazi propaganda techniques (e.g. the Big Lie)?

Answers on the back of a postcard to the usual address.

Comments

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

Good distinction.

But I would have thought there would some critique of the propaganda methods (but then too much of our current culture is probably dependent on them.)

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Well, there is some critique of government propaganda methods. It's not particularly mainstream, but there's an undercurrent in, say, a major paper like the SMH, of analysis of government propaganda techniques. I don't read Crikey, but I imagine that does rather a better job.

Godwin's law is the problem - nobody takes a comparison to the Nazi's seriously.