1. It is our tendency to value the individual over the group, the community. Bonds should be voluntary and free, not involuntary. Yet, those tight knit, suffocating communities are your best defense against propaganda. You are more free of mind here. Why?
2. Because in a real community you have real people to push against. You need boundaries to establish an identity. You have to push against something in order to establish yourself as yourself.
3. Having boundaries to establish yourself makes you less vulnerable to the influence of the propagandist. He must first undermine that belonging, that identity before he can shape you. The isolated individual is always at the mercy of the propagandist. seekingthehiddenthing.com
4. Jacques Ellul: “Propaganda…can have practically no effect on individuals before that group is fragmented…only when very small groups are annihilated, when the individual finds no more defenses, no equilibrium, no resistance exercised by the group to which he belongs, does total action by the propagandist become possible.”
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