![]() ![]() Think-for-yourself books appeared in Britain after the First World War. Few people at the time had any idea that substantial portions of mankind were antagonistic to this attitude, and were, for want of a better phrase, aggressively parasitical. H G Wells caught some of this mood, though he failed to counter the propaganda his Outline of History, and vague ideas about the unity of mankind, were popular. ![]() Huge population shifts between countries increased. Radio was new and brought new challenges, as TV did thirty years later. I'll put my conclusions, in teaser style, at the end of this piece.Īfter the First World War, and its stupefying torrent of propaganda, not surprisingly, many people thought they should learn about, and be on their guard against, newspapers, paid-for books, advertisements, political mountebanks, would-be dictators, and so on. ![]() I'm uncertain if this counts as a 'genre' but if so I'll discuss the idea of learning to think 'for yourself'. All of them were publicly available and bought by me as 'used' or 'second-hand' books. Is it possible to teach people to think? I'm looking mostly at books published in Britain between WW1 and WW2. ![]()
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