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...SECOND REASON THAT INFORMATION MAY BE SEALED OFF FROM consciousness is strategic. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers has noted that people have a motive to sell themselves as beneficent, rational, competent agents. The best propagandist is the one who believes his own lies, ensuring that he can't leak his deceit through nervous twitches or self-contradictions. So the brain might have been shaped to keep compromising data away from the conscious processes that govern our interaction with other people. At the same time, it keeps the data around in unconscious processes to prevent the person from getting...
...policies that affect my country overrides any smears and name-calling that comes with the job. One critic called me "short," which really bothered me - I'm 5'5". The attacks from Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and the New York Post, the way I was labeled a "Nazi propagandist" - that all comes with the territory. Being called names by people who make their career through name-calling is to be expected. It would be na?ve of me to think otherwise. Whatever the attacks, they're balanced out by the thousands of positive emails I get, and the responses from...
...good now. At least with the Taliban we had security." Rampant corruption, police abuse and an unchecked drug trade have bolstered the Taliban claims. A former mujahedin commander who fought with the Taliban against the occupying Soviet army in the 1980s says the Taliban now has a dedicated propagandist who furthers the cause by perpetuating and promoting rumors of police graft and government failures. The Taliban even maintains a website that lists occurrences of police corruption and reports of coalition attacks on innocent civilians www.alemarah.org in Pashto and Arabic...
...DIED. MURIEL SPARK, 88, British author of poetry, short stories and more than 20 novels whose elegantly spare, often satirical writing explored morality and perceptions of truth; in Florence, Italy. A Foreign Office propagandist during World War II, Spark converted to Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...
DIED. Muriel Spark, 88, British author of poetry, short stories and more than 20 novels whose elegantly spare, often satirical writing explored morality and perceptions of truth; in Florence, Italy. A Foreign Office propagandist during World War II, Spark converted to Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...