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- From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
- Subject: Re: Turn Off Your TV: part 13
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.162609.4266@starbase.trincoll.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:26:09 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <239-PCNews-124beta@ccs.covici.com> covici@ccs.covici.com writes:
- >red.css.itd.umish.edu in the directory poli/LaRouche .
- >
-
- I wouldn't dream of trying a full-scale analysis of this stuff
- for two reasons: life is too short and the base material isn't
- worth it.
-
- But I thought it might conceivably help someone who is perhaps
- impressed with the (utterly fraudulent) show of learning that
- is characteristic of LaRouchean vitriol if we could stop at one
- item and raise one question.
-
- The item is familiar to all LaRouche readers: reference to the
- Frankfurt School and Theodor Adorno. Here is the quote:
-
-
- >Turn Off Your TV--Part 13
- >
- >There Was Disney
- >
- >by L. Wolfe
- >
- >Disney's concepts were completely coherent with those of the
- >brainwashers of the Frankfurt School like Theodor Adorno, who
- >spoke of using the media and its power to convey emotion-laden
- >images to force a {retardation} of adult society.
- >
-
- Question: can someone, anyone, give us chapter and verse? In
- which of Adorno's books or articles does one find evidence that
- he was a "brainwasher"? I ask because this charge appears again
- and again (as does a similar one about the Tavistock Institute).
-
- Since there will be no answer, I can tell you this: what "brainwasher"
- Adorno did was to analyse Nazi propaganda techniques. Analyse. He
- himself was of course on the run from the Nazis who would have shot him
- twice (for being a Jew and for being on the left). Now go back to the
- quote above and observe its cleverness. What did "brainwasher" Adorno
- do? He "spoke of using the media.." Clinical article becomes part of
- a sinister plot.
-
- That's the way it works. I'm out of here.
-
- Norman Miller
-