Well, during our build up to war in Iraq I was very much involved in the anti-war movement. You would march and the next day look up any coverage given by the news, and often there was none. In the beginning, some, but that dwindled away to almost nothing. It's discouraging because you feel no matter what anyone does they are hell bent on going to war, and no one is going to stop them. This is no true democracy and never really has been. The American public and elsewhere are also to blame. Go on Facebook, lots of thumbs up for pictures, but provide information, put on an article up, even a short one, and no one is reading, just looking. People buy the propaganda because it's just easy to go along and I think most don't realize the real threat posed by our actions. We're the good guys. Russia bad since the middle 1940's.
For some time it has been known that most people do not read, or, if they do read, read only minimally. Propaganda is being transmitted basically through carefully photographed and edited videos, distributed in many different ways (TV, Youtube, social media, and so on.) While this is unfortunate, it's also superficial and temporary and could probably be subverted by people who took the time and made the effort to understand it.
Yeah, that's basically what the coverage has been in Ukraine, pictures of the devastation Russia has wrought. The dynamics and politics that brought it about is a blank to most people who have little interest in what happened, and maybe if they are interested they turn to their gurus like Rachel Maddow, or Sean Hannity to explain things. Also people can't deal with shades of grey. It's black and white thinking, Russia bad, Ukraine good, America said so.
I love the way you posted this. Right on. I would look to see if there was coverage hoping it would impact people's thinking if they did. They got what they wanted, years of war and destruction while the American people paid no attention to the mounting deaths and the destruction and they still don't. People rationalize their country's pathological need to be the world's sole super power. No global perspective is encouraged what so ever.
I don't want to put a lot of people out of work, and make mothering a full time job, so lets make critical thinking important and memorization much less so.
Well, during our build up to war in Iraq I was very much involved in the anti-war movement. You would march and the next day look up any coverage given by the news, and often there was none. In the beginning, some, but that dwindled away to almost nothing. It's discouraging because you feel no matter what anyone does they are hell bent on going to war, and no one is going to stop them. This is no true democracy and never really has been. The American public and elsewhere are also to blame. Go on Facebook, lots of thumbs up for pictures, but provide information, put on an article up, even a short one, and no one is reading, just looking. People buy the propaganda because it's just easy to go along and I think most don't realize the real threat posed by our actions. We're the good guys. Russia bad since the middle 1940's.
For some time it has been known that most people do not read, or, if they do read, read only minimally. Propaganda is being transmitted basically through carefully photographed and edited videos, distributed in many different ways (TV, Youtube, social media, and so on.) While this is unfortunate, it's also superficial and temporary and could probably be subverted by people who took the time and made the effort to understand it.
Yeah, that's basically what the coverage has been in Ukraine, pictures of the devastation Russia has wrought. The dynamics and politics that brought it about is a blank to most people who have little interest in what happened, and maybe if they are interested they turn to their gurus like Rachel Maddow, or Sean Hannity to explain things. Also people can't deal with shades of grey. It's black and white thinking, Russia bad, Ukraine good, America said so.
"You would march
and the next day look up
any coverage given by the
news, and often there was none."
.
MSM's not concerned with any Counter-
narratives which is why Gee Dubya
the Bush could get away with
calling the Largest Protest in
the History of the WORLD a
'focus group' and was able
for it to go unnoticed by
the Great Unwashed
who haven't really
the Time nor the
Energy for such
Inconvenient
messages.
I love the way you posted this. Right on. I would look to see if there was coverage hoping it would impact people's thinking if they did. They got what they wanted, years of war and destruction while the American people paid no attention to the mounting deaths and the destruction and they still don't. People rationalize their country's pathological need to be the world's sole super power. No global perspective is encouraged what so ever.
thanks, Fran!
perspective critical thinking and History
are all Enemies of the State which
is why we gotta Defund
Education asap.
I don't want to put a lot of people out of work, and make mothering a full time job, so lets make critical thinking important and memorization much less so.