Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
Rhetorician and Sophist. Prof at Texas A&M Comm & Journ dept. John Dewey Machiavellian. Up with democracy, down with fascism. Plato and Bob Ross talk about beauty.
Philosophy
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Political science
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Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Apr 30
Propaganda: The Basics
This concise and accessible guide makes clear the ubiquity of propaganda so that readers can understand its function in all layers of society, for both good or for ill, and ultimately use it to make t...
www.routledge.com
I'm excited to announce the publication of my new, short volume, Propaganda: The Basics. Providing tools for criticism and #medialiteracy, it exposes its abuses and manipulations, but also presents #propaganda as a means of #protest, #activism, and #politics. It presents propaganda as power.
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Mar 5
I don't know about you, but I can't wait for that Office of Shipbuilding.
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Mar 1
The Way to Hell
An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises Catastroph...
www.uapress.ua.edu
Despite his boasts, #Trump is no #Machiavelli . His lack of #virtu is leading us right into the pit, making himself and this country universally hated on the world stage. But if we watch closely, we might "learn the way to Hell in order to steer clear of it." www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736158...
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Everything I despise about arrogance in power was on grotesque display in the Oval Office. Anyone who cannot see this setup for what it was, hubris and contempt for honor and suffering performed as a media spectacle, has truly lost their way. And now we must choose our path, lost in a dark wood.
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Grotesque.
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Plato's relevant definition of #oligarchy : "The treasure house filled with gold, which each possesses, destroys the constitution. First, they find ways of spending money for themselves, then they stretch the laws relating to this, then they and their wives disobey the laws altogether."
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Trump posts madcap Gaza ‘Riviera’ AI video featuring sunbathing Netanyahu
The clip features a song with the lyrics: “Donald Trump will set you free, bringing the life for all to see, no more tunnels, no more fear, Trump Gaza is finally here.”
www.politico.eu
The irony of AI video is that it allows us to clearly visualize and lay bare the dystopian horror landscapes of the fascist imagination. Then again, this also allows them to become real. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 25
"The tryant wants no law above his own will, no associates but men of his own stamp of baseness. He is willing administer the laws when he can bend them to his will, but he will break them when he can no longer bend them." ~ #FrederickDouglass
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 24
"Consistent arbitrariness negates human freedom more efficiently than any tyranny ever could. One had at least to be an enemy of tyranny in order to be punished by it." ~ #HannahArendt
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 22
The proper name for the new Putin-Trump foreign policy is a protection racket.
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 21
It's interesting that only people not constantly accused of being Nazis never accidentally make Nazi salutes.
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 21
"Those demons of diseased ambition who can destroy a countryside without compunction, if there be but a certain quick profit to be gained by the devastation, are but letting loose a brutality of motivation that in the end comes back to plague mankind itself. " #KennethBurke
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 20
"A man who lives in a democratic society and who is subjected to propaganda is being drained of the democratic content itself...The citizen can repeat indefinitely 'the sacred formulas of democracy' while acting like a storm trooper." ~ Jacques Ellul
Nathan Crick
@nathancrick.bsky.social
· Feb 20
As Ralph Waldo Emerson says (I randomly opened his Essays and found this quote) "Nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension, or, the passage of the soul into higher forms." In any case, thank you, and so into the "blue sky" I go.