Friday 20 June 2008

Educated Conditioning

"Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything." ... "Don't you see that the educated reader can't stop reading the high-brow weeklies whatever they do? He can't. He's been conditioned."


--C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength


I think this speaks for itself.

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