Escaping The Cave Podcast

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#133 – Proselytes & Militants Revisited: Indoctrination's Long March – Escaping The Cave

A followup to the last episode. After watching our indoctrinated sleeper cells come to life, it's a good time to revisit Ellul's book, Propaganda, and put it thru the filter of the last few weeks.    Notes from 2019: Ellul's ideas on pre-propaganda, propaganda's conditioned reflexes, myths, and "orthopraxy". Including the triggering of active and passive action (activists, influencers, collaborators), widespread participation by "committed" zealots, the separation between thought and action, exploiting the abyss between what we say and what we do, mobilizing men for action counter to their own values, and being unable to reverse ourselves once "action" has begun.   Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747 Like it? Share it! More: https://toddzillax.substack.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l–HufeRSAnj91A   SM7B
  1. #133 – Proselytes & Militants Revisited: Indoctrination's Long March
  2. #132 -Joe da Wabbit Hunter, Wokentology's Westboro Kids, Beware the Messiah
  3. #131 – Mao's Grandkids vs. The Sun Tzu of Propaganda
  4. #130 – Hamasholes, Jefferson's Coat, Democracy vs. The Invasive Species
  5. #129 – The Bastard A's, AJ's Ruminations, Death's Perspective
  6. #128 – Data Overload, Our Storytelling Paradox, The Everyman Tyrant
  7. #127 – The Power of Patriotism, Cannibal Leftists, Our Badass Ancestors
  8. #126 – On Tribalism: Unity Via Division, Vichy Whites, Being the Lone Chimp
  9. #125 – Institutional Hospice & The Death of 9/12
  10. #124 – Where’s Rock Bottom? Killing The Come Together Fairytale