Propaganda at its best is mythlike. Soviet posters urging hard work, Nazi films celebrating national unity. Corporate training films that soft-pedal but insist on compliance in the name of diversity. Modern, corporate stories are increasingly part of our lives, and the creators of these stories would like you to believe that they are just like myths—resonant stories about our true selves. It’s the opposite. These aren’t myths at all. Propaganda is a set of stories about what someone in power would like you to be. What they’re insisting you become. Propaganda in the industrial age has created
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