propagandaclass - The Monday Morning Memo

“I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.“
– Leo Burnett

“The other day Dizzy told me that in a small bookshop in the Czech town of Náchod he found a nice edition of Blake, so let us now imagine that these good people, who live on the other side of the border, and who speak to each other in a soft, childlike language, come home from work in the evenings, light a fire in the hearth and read Blake to one another. And perhaps, if he were still alive, seeing all this, Blake would say that there are some places in the Universe where the Fall has not occurred, the world has not turned upside down, and Eden still exists. Here Mankind is not governed by the rules of reason, stupid and strict, but by the heart and intuition. The people do not indulge in idle chatter, parading what they know, but create remarkable things by applying their imagination. The state ceases to impose the shackles of daily oppression, but helps people to realize their hopes and dreams. And man is not just a cog in the system, not just playing a role, but a free Creature. That’s what was passing through my mind, making my bedrest almost a pleasure.

Sometimes I think that only the sick are truly healthy.”

- Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, p. 84, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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