i feel like t each of these cases ar sort of a dialectic. We're saying, hay, there's tha thing that looks the same in facism and democratic propaganda. But actually there's this other differ somewhere in there that distinguishes between the two. And i think the difference is agency. You know, mahele's really a really interesting casehe talks about people who have extraordinary agency in training. Drowning is a totally immersive experience. You may not be breathing, but you are fully, totally, every part of your body engaged in experiencing drowning. Swimming, you are also in the water, but you have skills thathave been trained into you. You are in
In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford University, but their work had a profound impact on public opinion. They produced groundbreaking films and art exhibitions. They urged viewers to stop, reflect and think for themselves, and in so doing, they developed a set of design principles that reimagined how media could make us feel more calm, reflective, empathetic; in short, more democratic.