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“When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they’re decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.”
— Hans Haacke
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Nationalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Nationalism is an ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a specific nation and emphasizes loyalty to that nation. It prioritizes national interests over those of other groups or individuals. Nationalism can also be defined as the attitude of a nation’s members when they care about their national identity, or the actions they take to achieve or maintain self-determination.
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”
— Edward Bernays
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“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.”
— John Maynard Keynes
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Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man’s rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.
— Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda
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Nationalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Nationalism is an ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a specific nation and emphasizes loyalty to that nation. It prioritizes national interests over those of other groups or individuals. Nationalism can also be defined as the attitude of a nation’s members when they care about their national identity, or the actions they take to achieve or maintain self-determination.
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PBS = The Propaganda Broadcasting Service
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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they’re decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.