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by pmoriarty 2979 days ago
Also check out Ellul's "Propaganda", where he says that it's actually the intellectuals who are most susceptible to propaganda, as they feel they have to investigate competing claims and decide for themselves.

Ellul was an interesting thinker. But, to my knowledge, he never advocated violence. I'm not sure where Kaczynski got the idea for using violence to achieve his ends, but it wasn't from Ellul.