The press today is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and war-aims and operation-plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows, nor is allowed to know, the purposes for which he is used, nor even the role that he is to play. A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined. Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels as his liberty.


Vol. II, trans. C.F. Atkinson (1928), p. 462 - The Decline of the West (1918, 1923)

Oswald Spengler Quotes

The press today is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every...

The press today is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every...

The press today is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every...

The press today is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every...