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Interlude LIV.5: The Flood That Teaches You to Stop Resisting - Information Overload, Propaganda Theory, and the Psychology of Demoralization
What if overwhelm is not accidental, but structural?
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey traces the intellectual and scientific lineage behind modern information saturation, revealing how high-volume, fast-moving, and contradictory media environments shape perception, attention, and emotional stability.
Drawing on foundational work by Walter Lippmann on the “pseudo-environment,” Harold Lasswell and Edward Bernays on propaganda and engineered consent, and Jacques Ellul on propaganda as a total social condition, this episode situates today’s information landscape…
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