The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.