Ah, Oswald Spengler. For a minute I thought you were quoting David Spengler https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/explorations/teachers/view/125/david-spangler

I thought it sounded a bit too downbeat for him.

I guess the most apt Oswald quote would be "The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play." ~ Oswald Spengler"