This collection illustrates some of the mass persuasion tools invented and perfected by totalitarian and democratic governments. See if you can spot any techniques used in marketing today. First presented in 2005 at an MIT class on war and media.

1. “Throughout the world today, people are beginning to see
that a modern state, whether democratic or authoritarian,
cannot withstand the subterranean forces of anarchy and chaos
without propaganda.”
Joseph Goebbels, 1934

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