Idea

What is propaganda and what role does it have in political life? That is the question of the greatest interest to us.

How should propaganda look and what is its role in our movement? Is it an end in itself or only a means to an end? We must discuss that, but we can do that only when we begin with the origin of propaganda itself, namely the idea, then move to the target of propaganda, namely people.

Ideas in themselves are timeless.

They are not tied to individuals, much less to a people.

They rest in a people.

And there is a great, how do I say this, a great beauty, if you will, in being able to articulate something.

Most people have no idea whatsoever about Ideas and the like.

Give me an idea.

Give me a background.

It's through that process that your world and your life are now what you sometime in the past desired them to be.

Have you ever studied and analyzed the process of the working of your mind when a new idea fertile with possibilities shows up? Have you noticed the correlation or the relation that Desire," capital D, "Desire bears to such an Idea?" Capital I, Idea.

Now he's trying to say, look, there's the way your creator, the God, the life force, the Holy Spirit, there's a way that that consciousness would look at things, and then there's the way you look at things.

And when you're looking at things through your limited lowercase S self and your desires from that little mind, which are obsessions and addictions and judgments, when you look at it through that, you get one result.

So he goes on and says, "Let us study this relation and this process.

There is always first the idea, not considering at this moment the necessity or occasion for its appearance.

And it matters not where the idea comes from when it's a capital I Idea.

Whether it comes from without or from within, for it is always the capital I who inspire it," capital I it, this idea, "from the creative mind.

Okay? So here then we, we, we, we see how notion can be or how concept, the grief, can be the emancipatory characteristic, uh, has emancipatory characteristics that we had in the doctrine of essence.

Okay? So this is the, this is the third book, and we arrive at the very end at the absolute Idee, absolute idea, which is, uh, the s- if you like, what one of three points that we have, one of the three moments that we have in Hegel's, Hegel's, uh, system in general, in a sense that we had before philo- in philosoph- in Phenomenology of Spirit.

We had, uh, the absolute, uh, knowledge.

In Science of Logic we have absolute idea, and in, um, uh, Encyclopedia we have absolute spirit.

First, you must realize that you have no idea before you can know the idea.

We scan across all the frequencies if we want to learn anything new.

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