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Enclosed Within His Artificial Creation, Man Finds That There Is “no Exit”; That He Cannot Pierce The Shell Of Technology Again To Find The Ancient Milieu To Which He Was Adapted For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years . In Our Cities There Is No More Day Or Night Or Heat Or Cold. But There Is Overpopulation, Thralldom To Press And Television, Total Absence Of Purpose. All Men Are Constrained By Means External To Them To Ends Equally External. The Further The Technical Mechanism Develops That Allows Us To Escape Natural Necessity, The More We Are Subjected To Artificial Technical Necessities.

Having Analyzed These Traits, We Can Now Advance A Definition Of Propaganda - Not An Exhaustive Definition, Unique And Exclusive Of All Others, But At Least A Partial One: Propaganda Is A Set Of Methods Employed By An Organized Group That Wants To Bring About The Active Or Passive Participation In Its Actions Of A Mass Of Individuals, Psychologically Unified Through Psychological Manipulations And Incorporated In An Organization.

According To The International Institute For Environment And Development, The Annual Amount Spent Globally On Advertising Aimed At Increasing Consumption Topped $430 Billion In 1998.consumer Capitalism Is Dedicated To The Proposition That Production Is Good In Itself, No Matter What Is Produced. The Net Effect Is The Massive Production Of Absurd, Empty And Useless Items Which Are Nevertheless Utterly Serious Since We Earn Our Living From Them, And Dedicate Our Leisure Time To Them.

I Believe That The Biblical Teaching Is Clear. It Always Contests Political Power. It Incites To "counterpower," To "positive" Criticism, To An Irreducible Dialogue (like That Between King And Prophet In Israel), To Antistatism, To A Decentralizing Of The Relation, To An Extreme Relativizing Of Everything Political, To An Anti-ideology, To A Questioning Of All That Claims Either Power Or Dominion (in Other Words, Of All Things Political), And Finally, If We May Use A Modern Term, To A Kind Of "anarchism" (so Long As We Do Not Relate The Term To The Anarchist Teaching Of The Nineteenth Century).

Technical Civilization Has Made A Great Error In Not Suppressing Death, The Only Human Reality Still Intact