Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 13. 12th June 1975
Dangerpoints
Dangerpoints
At the moment there are certain key areas which are encouraging the growth of collective evil. These include the effect of propaganda through the media in the form of a repitition of an ideal to the point where it is unconsciously accepted by the individual, and the use of simplistic slogans to discourage individual reflection on issues; the desire to have secrets so that the degree of power is seen to be in direct proportion to the secrecy by which that power is wielded ( a corollary of this is it requires a strong police force to maintain the secrets — eg. the SIS); the manipulation of religion, turning a faith based on experience and personal involvement into an ideological glue to bind a society together, but taking out all the truth; and the over development of trade unionism as a form of collective evil.