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Britain and the Netherlands - Volume V Some Political Mythologies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)
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Britain and the Netherlands - Volume V Some Political Mythologies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)
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AS Dr. Coen Tamse points out in the introductory essay specially
written for this volume, what we call myths are all too often the
errors and misconceptions of others. Time being short and human un
derstanding imperfect, it is wise to suppose that posterity will
convict us all of thinking and acting in some sort within
mythological uni verses; only a dead myth is by common consent
recognized as a false reading of reality. And yet, in our troubled
century, we have witnessed the deliberate fabrication of
mythologies, apart from the inheritance of earlier growths like
those which still feed nationalism and anti Semitism. It almost
looks as if mass democracies positively require neatly packaged and
emotionally charged explanations of the social and political
environment as a substitute for religion. At all events, the modern
science of public relations has advanced far enough for cer tain
regimes, or for those who seek to overthrow them, to make a
calculated appeal to the vanities, anxieties and frustrations of
ordinary people by offering highly simplified explanations of a
baffling world, often in easily grasped pictorial or dramatic
forms, whether the object is to condition obedience or incite to
'struggle'. The advent of the mass media is generally, if unfairly,
taken to have opened limitless new op portunities for the
manipulation of our thought-processes, even below the threshold of
consciousness.
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