Fate Operates When People Give Up

This Is Where Each Individual Must Decide For Himself. The Essential Thing Is The Decision To Challenge The Modern State, Which Without This Small Group Of Protesters Will Be Checked By Neither Brake, Value, Nor Reason.

In Point Of Fact There Are A Certain Number Of Values And Of Forces Which Are Of Decisive Importance In Our World Civilization: The Primacy Of Production, The Continual Growth Of The Power Of The State And The Formation Of The National State, The Autonomous Development Of Technics, Etc. These, Among Others - Far More Than The Ownership Of The Means Of Production Or Any Totalitarian Doctrine - Are The Constitutive Elements Of The Modern World. So Long As These Elements Continue To Be Taken For Granted, The World Is Standing Still.

It Is The Emergence Of Mass Media Which Makes Possible The Use Of Propaganda Techniques On A Societal Scale.

Am I A Pessimist? Not At All. I Am Convinced That The History Of The Human Race, No Matter How Tragic, Will Ultimately Lead To The Kingdom Of God. I Am Convinced That All The Works Of Humankind Will Be Reintegrated In The Work Of God, And That Each Of Us, No Matter How Sinful, Will Ultimately Be Saved.

Propaganda's Content Increasingly Resembles Information. It Has Even Clearly Been Proved That A Violent, Excessive, Shock-provoking Propaganda Texts Leads Ultimately To Less Conviction And Participation. The Listeners Critical Powers Decrease If The Propaganda Message Is More Rational And Less Violent.