"A lie told a hundred times becomes the truth."
The masses are moved not by intellect, but by emotion. How did Paul Joseph Goebbels, the psychological architect of fascism, brainwash an entire nation through the media?
1. Simple Emotional Stimulation, Not Intellect
Propaganda should not target intellectuals. It achieves its most lethal destructive power when it stimulates fear, anger, and a sense of victimhood, without the need for intricate logic, and is repeatedly injected through simple slogans.
2. Creation of a Public Enemy
To coalesce public anger into a unified force, a fictitious adversary, one that ostensibly oppresses 'us,' is always necessary. Even in contemporary politics, the demonization of opposing factions remains the oldest technique for mass infantilization.