I'm looking for where this quote came from "Give me control of the popular culture, and I will control the masses"
I'm sure I'm not exact on this quote since I'm unsure if it is the masses or the future.
2006-08-24 12:23:13 · 4 answers · asked by Richard Blaine. 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Anybody with totalitarian aims will understand this. As far back and before Machiavelli or the decadent Roman Emperors. Ever heard of ' bread and circuses' ?
Sounds late nineteenth, early twentieth century. Lenin would've said it, Trotsky would've said. Stalin too, I bet.
But fersure, I can almost hear Josef Goebbels saying something like that. The Nazis gave out free radios just so you could hear Hitlers' speeches.
2006-08-24 12:27:08 · answer #1 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. Goebbels was known for his zealous and energetic oratory and virulent anti-Semitism. Following Hitler's death he served as Chancellor for one day. Afterwards, he and his wife drugged their children with morphine, and then poisoned them with cyanide. He and his wife then committed suicide.
www.calvin.edu/academic
/cas/gpa/goebmain.htm
Do a websearch Joseph Goebbels speeches
2006-08-25 13:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by sleepyredlion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Allen Ginsberg: “Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
2006-08-24 19:58:24 · answer #3 · answered by Violet Pearl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That sounds similar to some things George Orwell has said.
2006-08-24 22:34:05 · answer #4 · answered by chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋