Propaganda is based in duplicity, and duplicity is the de' facto standard by which most people conduct their lives.
We see it in the Media, in Congress, from all of our elected and appointed officials, in Business, in our Healthcare, in our schools and in our homes. Most of us act in duplicitious ways each and every day.
If we want to stop seeing it, we need to stop being it. Be genuine and integral in our own little corner of the world, and practice it everywhere.
I actually think that is incorrect. The recognized authority in propaganda, Edward Bernays, posited that the content and the implied intent in propaganda is what makes it pernicious or injurious to the consumer.
Television is a technology that here is turned over to advertisers, and the agenda of advertisers is at odds with the needs of the people. This is not only investing in duplicity; it is a mark of contempt for the needs of the people. In most other developed countries, the Television technology is turned over, or a substantial portion of it, to teachers and government service agencies that try to address many of the needs of the viewers. That is still an example of propaganda, but it isn’t rooted in duplicity.
The Cuban people have been taught that they have the Yanqui boot of oppression on their neck, and it is so, but that truth of living in a revolutionary state is also mediated to the society through propaganda.
Propaganda is based in duplicity, and duplicity is the de' facto standard by which most people conduct their lives.
We see it in the Media, in Congress, from all of our elected and appointed officials, in Business, in our Healthcare, in our schools and in our homes. Most of us act in duplicitious ways each and every day.
If we want to stop seeing it, we need to stop being it. Be genuine and integral in our own little corner of the world, and practice it everywhere.
Then we will begin to see our own reflection.
I actually think that is incorrect. The recognized authority in propaganda, Edward Bernays, posited that the content and the implied intent in propaganda is what makes it pernicious or injurious to the consumer.
Television is a technology that here is turned over to advertisers, and the agenda of advertisers is at odds with the needs of the people. This is not only investing in duplicity; it is a mark of contempt for the needs of the people. In most other developed countries, the Television technology is turned over, or a substantial portion of it, to teachers and government service agencies that try to address many of the needs of the viewers. That is still an example of propaganda, but it isn’t rooted in duplicity.
The Cuban people have been taught that they have the Yanqui boot of oppression on their neck, and it is so, but that truth of living in a revolutionary state is also mediated to the society through propaganda.
https://www.dennislewis.org/articles-other-writings/articles-essays/propaganda-in-a-democracy/