I recall a passage from Anthony Daniels's The Wilder Shores of Marx, in which he describes journeys to Cuba, North Korea, Romania, Vietnam and Albania in the late 1980s: "... within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate.
Within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate.
Though he made clear that his personal predilection was for tough justice, he strove to make the system reflect the thinking of a new, more collaborative generation of cadets who were less willing to inform on one another.
Furthermore, whereas ethnographic information provides personal and family-based perspectives on resource management, it is less likely to inform about how management systems were enacted among multiple settlements.
Furthermore, medical providers may be less willing to inform African Americans of all the prevention strategies that are available.
For example, a stigmatizing pharmacist may be less likely to inform a young woman who self-selects St John's wort for depression that the herbal medication can reduce the effectiveness of her oral contraceptives [ 8].
It remains important that health care providers continue advising pregnant women about behaviours and lifestyle habits which can prevent infectious diseases, but it may be less important to inform pregnant women about specific infectious diseases.
India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, was less direct, informing the government in Colombo that he was not able to attend.
It is hard to recall a time when the national, not just the London, mind was less informed about or engaged with Europe than it is today.
According to Fairleigh Dickinson University's 2012 PublicMind survey, researchers found that someone who watched only Fox News was less informed on both national and international news than those who watched no news at all.
