thinking about propaganda
Here’s where the all-knowing Google directed my focus when I searched “propaganda” on September 30, 2022:
Watch for the dude strolling by in the background.
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
— Aldous Huxley
Good news: New York-Presbyterian Hospital pulled a 30-second ad about myocarditis in children after the public and numerous doctors accused the hospital of normalizing and trivializing the condition.
Read more here.
Reminder: This post of mine offers a shitload of useful context about propaganda.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
—Hermann Goering, Hitler’s deputy, at his 1946 Nuremberg War Crimes trial
Another post of mine that exposes some of the deeper connections:
“It is not enough to reconcile people more or less to our regime, to move them towards a position of neutrality towards us, we want rather to work on people until they are addicted to us.”
— Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels
Then, of course, there’s this classic:
And what are they cooking up for us this holiday season?
It all stops when enough of us say NO.
Americans are the most propagandized people in the history of the world. We should be kinder to each other for what we all have to face.
Mickey---a good study would be why some of us succumb, and why some of us don't. I think i was in the middle before Casey was killed In Iraq. I believed some, but I was inclined to be skeptical because I grew up during Viet Nam. Now, I believe NOTHING and I am usually proven correct. I don't really have much empathy for the ones who soak propaganda up like water, because I know there are many of us who resist.