Jacques Ellul on Violence, Resistance, and War by Shaw Demy

Author:Shaw, Demy [Shaw, Demy]
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Published: 2016-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

173. Marlin, Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion, 34.

174. Anozie, “Human Rights and Terrorism,” 206–22.

175. Ellul, Violence, 5. Ellul notes, “the state . . . must have the right to wage war.”

176. The theme of the 2014 Jacques Ellul International Conference held at Carleton University and the Dominican University College in Ottawa, July 13–15, 2014, at which this paper was presented.

177. Ellul, Technological Bluff, 336.

178. Vanguard (Nigerian Newspaper) Monday, June 9, 2014. See also Audu, “The Almajiri Institution, Boko Haram, and Terrorism in Northern Nigeria,” 192.

179. Nasr, Islam, xi.

180. Marlin, Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion, 22.

181. Ellul, Propaganda, vi. (See Preface by Konrad Kellen).

182. Ibid., xviii.

183. Ibid., 102.

184. Marlin, Propaganda, 22. Marlin describes it as well-intentioned propaganda.

185. Ellul, Propaganda, 104.

186. Ibid., 105.

187. Ibid., 106.

188. Ibid., 113.

189. Ellul, “The Ethics of Propaganda, 159–75.

190. Kluver, “Jacques Ellul: Technique, Propaganda, and Modern Media,” 100.

191. Ellul, Propaganda, 257.

192. Ibid., 296.

193. Ibid., 113.

194. Ibid., 114.

195. Glander, Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War, 22.

196. Ibid., 118.

197. Ibid., xviii.

198. Ibid., 262. See also Lasswell, World Revolutionary Propaganda, chapter 11.

199. Ellul, Propaganda, 120.

200. Ibid., 121.

201. One has to recall the monopoly influence that the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have in the world and in general the American news media.

202. Ellul, Propaganda, 103.

203. Kluver, “Jacques Ellul: Technique, Propaganda, and Modern Media,” 99.

204. Ellul, Technological Society, 21.

205. Kluver, 101.

206. Ibid.

207. Ellul, “The Ethics of Propaganda,” 159–75.

208. Kluver, “Jacques Ellul,” 103. Kluver also notes that propaganda sends a totalizing effect on the masses by disallowing “true competitive discourse,” 104.

209. Monica Mark has tried to associate Boko Haram and ISIS. ISIS had suggested that kidnapping girls in Chibok is similar to kidnapping and selling the Yazidi women into slavery.

210. See Okolo, Squandermania Mentality.

211. Oyebade, “Reluctant Democracy,” 137–62.

212. Ellul, Propaganda, 104.

213. Ibid., 270.

214. Ellul, Jacques Ellul on Politics, Technology and Christianity, 15.

215. I discussed this in my article on how governments support or sponsor structural terrorism to intimidate the masses. This also applies in the use of violence to compel people into accepting a manipulative approach in governance and information control or distortions. See Anozie, “Human Rights and Terrorism: The Niger Delta Oil War,” 218–22.

216. Marlin, Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion, 36.

217. Ellul, Propaganda, 6, 61.

218. Ellul, Violence, 123.

219. Ellul, Propaganda, 256.

220. Ibid. See also Ellul, Violence, 97.

221. Ibid., 259.

222. There are other members of President Jonathan’s propaganda machinery but I have chosen to focus on the most prominent ones, but that does not mean they are the most effective and most important propagandists in this aspect of governance. I have purposely avoided discussing names like Reno Omokri (effective with media technology propaganda, using Facebook, the blogosphere, Twitter, etc). He is Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New Media.

223. I associate Dr. Doyin Okupe’s comment to a form of propaganda. Many people are of the view that Okupe knows that the best thing for him is to keep fighting for his pay checks. This situation is similar to the one described by Louis Lochner,

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