Propaganda and social media

[erebus]

The Romans had the games, and the crowds need entertainment, and infotainment fits this.

 

Presenting facts can be selective, and the invasion and corporate oil grab in Iraq should not be forgotten. The process was lies, while making sure the world was about to end any moment thus destabilizing objective discussion as decisions were needed yesterday.

 

So the information is both skewed, and limited, allowing simplistic pictures and superficial discussion to take the floor.

 

Just ask yourself if any war, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria were a benefit for the populations there. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya are smashed to pieces, the water, electricity, sewage, and other amenities we take for granted are sporadic and intermittent at best. Education for females is now a joke, as they get shot, along with teachers, or the school bombed. It like here keeps people ignorant, through regulation of information through the mass media.

 

So we are now in Mali, and like the 56 countries the USA has drone bases, helping governments on SECURITY, might be for terrorism, but when one looks at "WHO GAINS" it seems the military are the first step for corporate interests, who follow the carnage.

 

Let us also not forget to uncover "who might Loose" and strangely throughout Africa, it appears its China. They lost the Oil in Libya, and we in the advanced nations need an enemy and China who dares to trade without the use of military force, but offering bribes, such a s infrastructure, as in water, sewage, airports, roads, rail plus schools, hospitals, which are delivered in a very short time.

 

We like grabbing through the diplomacy of the gun barrel, where threats, and assassination assist cooperation of client states, which our corporations plunder taking what we want and leaving the country normally destitute and debt riven.

 

So it who gains and who looses, and the propaganda is designed to obliterate particular information, that we just do not need to know. Just keep on paying the banks your taxes, and let us justify murdering foreigners for corporate sponsors.

 

Its a lovely world, innit!

[Lockjaw]

The Romans had the games, and the crowds need entertainment, and infotainment fits this.

 

Presenting facts can be selective, and the invasion and corporate oil grab in Iraq should not be forgotten. The process was lies, while making sure the world was about to end any moment thus destabilizing objective discussion as decisions were needed yesterday.

 

So the information is both skewed, and limited, allowing simplistic pictures and superficial discussion to take the floor.

 

Just ask yourself if any war, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria were a benefit for the populations there. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya are smashed to pieces, the water, electricity, sewage, and other amenities we take for granted are sporadic and intermittent at best. Education for females is now a joke, as they get shot, along with teachers, or the school bombed. It like here keeps people ignorant, through regulation of information through the mass media.

 

So we are now in Mali, and like the 56 countries the USA has drone bases, helping governments on SECURITY, might be for terrorism, but when one looks at "WHO GAINS" it seems the military are the first step for corporate interests, who follow the carnage.

 

Let us also not forget to uncover "who might Loose" and strangely throughout Africa, it appears its China. They lost the Oil in Libya, and we in the advanced nations need an enemy and China who dares to trade without the use of military force, but offering bribes, such a s infrastructure, as in water, sewage, airports, roads, rail plus schools, hospitals, which are delivered in a very short time.

 

We like grabbing through the diplomacy of the gun barrel, where threats, and assassination assist cooperation of client states, which our corporations plunder taking what we want and leaving the country normally destitute and debt riven.

 

So it who gains and who looses, and the propaganda is designed to obliterate particular information, that we just do not need to know. Just keep on paying the banks your taxes, and let us justify murdering foreigners for corporate sponsors.

 

Its a lovely world, innit!

 

Errrm.

 

Is that a "yes" then?

[*_ash_*]

I am inclined to agree. The reason being, all too often people forward and repost stuff of a political nature (often untrue) on without questioning it.

 

Basically, most people are quite retarded. They are easily influenced, and that is the danger.

 

Intelligent people fled Germany or were executed. Numbers count - and social media can create large numbers faster than intelligence can correct it.

[Agent Orange]

Basically, most people are quite retarded. They are easily influenced, and that is the danger.

 

Intelligent people fled Germany or were executed. Numbers count - and social media can create large numbers faster than intelligence can correct it.

 

I think you should conduct an experiment. Think of a story (the more absurd the better) and post it on facebook. The challenge, to see if people are daft enough to believe and forward on

[Lockjaw]

I think you should conduct an experiment. Think of a story (the more absurd the better) and post it on facebook. The challenge, to see if people are daft enough to believe and forward on

 

Easter Eggs banned in Bradford, Leicester & Birmingham...

[Cavegirl]

Propaganda in the modern world: Is modern media (mainly social media) potentially as dangerous* as Nazi propaganda was?

 

 

(*assuming you think Nazi propaganda was dangerous)

 

This is an interesting article describing how the internet has changed the propaganda model constructed by Chomsky & Herman in their seminal work on 20th century propaganda.

 

http://www.prwatch.org/node/6068

 

I don't think that propaganda is as easy to recognise as many people who've contributed to this thread have suggested.

 

My own area of expertise is archaeology. I once did a study of Nazi archaeologists which examined how they were able to manipulate evidence to 'prove' that white people originated from the Scandinavian regions whilst black people originated from Africa. Complete and utter tosh, but it was an accepted premise in many Universities and was widely believed by the populace. This type of propaganda is insidious, wide spread and very difficult to spot by the average lay person.

 

Can it happen today? Absolutely and it is happening. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, as US hegemony dwindled we saw the rise of an ideology of globalisation and global governance. The aim was to gradually move away from the old notions of nation states and one way to do this is to break down people's sense of their national identity. Hence we no longer hear of Stonehenge as a 'site of national importance', now it is a 'world heritage' site.

 

Should we face the prospect of a war on our soil, we'll quickly see this change back to an emphasis on the site's national importance because invoking our national identity will make us want to fight to save the nation. It's no coincidence that during wars the national museums are soon looted and the main cultural sites are the first to be bombed, it's a great morale destroyer.

 

Archaeology is just a small aspect of society, most people don't understand how intrinsically political it is and very few people could see through the propaganda behind the academia because it always feeds into a much wider and deeper belief system within society. If you believe something you rarely question those beliefs very deeply, but everything that backs up those beliefs strengthen it. That's the real power of propaganda.

[Agent Orange]

Easter Eggs banned in Bradford, Leicester & Birmingham...

 

Oh, I can see the sea of froth right now

[*_ash_*]

This is an interesting article describing how the internet has changed the propaganda model constructed by Chomsky & Herman in their seminal work on 20th century propaganda.

 

http://www.prwatch.org/node/6068

 

I don't think that propaganda is as easy to recognise as many people who've contributed to this thread have suggested.

 

My own area of expertise is archaeology. I once did a study of Nazi archaeologists which examined how they were able to manipulate evidence to 'prove' that white people originated from the Scandinavian regions whilst black people originated from Africa. Complete and utter tosh, but it was an accepted premise in many Universities and was widely believed by the populace. This type of propaganda is insidious, wide spread and very difficult to spot by the average lay person.

 

Can it happen today? Absolutely and it is happening. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, as US hegemony dwindled we saw the rise of an ideology of globalisation and global governance. The aim was to gradually move away from the old notions of nation states and one way to do this is to break down people's sense of their national identity. Hence we no longer hear of Stonehenge as a 'site of national importance', now it is a 'world heritage' site.

 

Should we face the prospect of a war on our soil, we'll quickly see this change back to an emphasis on the site's national importance because invoking our national identity will make us want to fight to save the nation. It's no coincidence that during wars the national museums are soon looted and the main cultural sites are the first to be bombed, it's a great morale destroyer.

 

Archaeology is just a small aspect of society, most people don't understand how intrinsically political it is and very few people could see through the propaganda behind the academia because it always feeds into a much wider and deeper belief system within society. If you believe something you rarely question those beliefs very deeply, but everything that backs up those beliefs strengthen it. That's the real power of propaganda.

 

A good read that, and post. The bold - I suppose it has to be hard to spot, or it wouldn't work.