Tuesday 10 August 2010

How propaganda changes perspectives


My opinion: People can use media to mislead the masses.

Have you ever seen short home made films or movies that wants to bring out the scene by putting sad or violent background musics to make their point clear.

Ok, i bet some of you still cannot understand. I'll give you an example.

The movie clip is about a war torn town in Baghdad. Without the background music and special effects, it's just another lame movie clip about the aftermath of wars

But, u see, there's an art in propoganda. It means going through the inner part of the mind and planting information in those areas be it true or false, leading or misleading. Ok back to the clip:

What's the difference if you put the background music of a national anthem of a country and the background music of a sad concerto. The mind then perceives the boring clip of Baghdad in two persepectives.

One of them, is the perspective that, the destruction of Baghdad is nationalistic and must be done to protect justice and liberty and the other perspective is that the destruction of Baghdad is sad, unfair and inhumane. So watching those edited clips, we let the movie makers go inside our mind and unknowingly change the perspective of how we see things.

You see, what propaganda does is tell you what to think instead of how to think. ANother example, is north korea and china. Westerners see the booming economy of the asians as a threat to their stability, so, they come out with propoganda scientists with the aim of discrediting the chinese labour market. They say that they charge cheap, inhumane labour through their documentaries and at the same time fail to look at the chaotic situation they themselves have being hostages to worker's union threatening to stop production or services if the demands of these unions are not met.

So, what I'm saying is that all propoganda, be it good or bad, all have one thing in common. All are one-sided. It produces one-sided thinkers instead of wise ones. Be it semitic or anti semitic, democrat or republican, consevative or liberal, all of them have equally the same destructive effects to the human psyche.

That is why, i like watching cartoons. No propoganda. Just pure relaxing entertainment.

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