Please Support FR
Click The Pic To Donate.
Please adjust the last word in the headline to “Propaganda”. Thank you.
Propaganda Analysis was a require course for graduation from Iowa State University when I was there. It was to teach us how the old people are conning us. They tried to used the Readers Digest to show how articles changed from the original writing to a conservative perspective. mid 70’s
Propaganda and propaganda analysis have a long history.
Please Support FR
Click The Pic To Donate.
Our 3 year old Grand-daughter already knows how to apply the phrase, “That’s Silly!”.
A song being taught to school children today (to the tune of “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”)
I will always wear my face mask
All throughout and day
I will always wear my face mask
To keep covid away
I will always wear my face mask
Guarding my family and friends
I will always wear my face mask
Till the second my life ends
One of the most important things I taught my children while growing up were the common fallacies of logical thinking. It taught them to spot manipulation, whether logical or emotional.
The Top 10 Logical Fallacies and How to Avoid Them in Arguments
Straw Man Fallacy.
Begging the Question Fallacy.
Ad Hominem Fallacy.
Post Hoc Fallacy.
Loaded Question Fallacy.
False Dichotomy Fallacy.
Fallacy of Equivocation.
Appeal to Authority Fallacy.
Hasty Generalization Fallacy
Appeal to Popular Opinion Fallacy
https://successfulstudent.org/the-art-to-argument-persuasion-logical-fallacies/
This was a popular book when my kids were growing up:
https://www.amazon.com/Fallacy-Detective-Thirty-Eight-Recognize-Reasoning/dp/097453157X?dchild=1
Students are age-segregated into ghettos of kids of similar age from whom they can’t receive any assistance discovering their own identities, which they used to get from adopting their parents’ livelihoods and culture as little adults. Disposable networks of limited purpose and duration fostered by schooling malfeasance have pushed out our once vital community involvement; school disrupts the free relationships in which people of all ages used to be able to freely associate with each other in in-depth personal involvement, people of different age categories offering involvement based on their life experience, young people giving the elderly their vigor, elderly people their wisdom and attention. Television pushed this out, now cell-phone based internet, in the future, field-generated connectivity to captivate all the senses so contact with ordinary reality can be continually monitored, regulated and modified by central controllers.
.
Childhood which John Taylor Gatto declared from the pre-technolocratic past normally to be over by 7, or 11 at the latest, is being indefinitely extended beyond the 20s with “life long learning” conditioning. (I worked with a man who had been in college from just after high school until his mid-50s, who had taken 5 college degrees without attaining any noticeable life accomplishment, college was simply an unreal world in which there was no accountability or self-checking about the results of one’s activity, if there had been some harm to others caused by intellectual experiments upon real-life people, there was no accountability.)
.
From the beginning of the Prussian system as devised by behaviorsts like Pavlov’s teacher Wilhelm Wundt, students were socially conditioned to themselves insist on conformity in outlook and ideation, to be their own enforcers of ideological homogeneity, to socially punish rebellious individuality. This conformity drive continues with Queen Bees and Wannabes under the personality corrosion of social media experience designed by experts in fostering addiction.
.
I agree. This may be one of the best ways to counter. It needs to be done in early grades, perhaps under the banner of teaching kids to not be swayed by advertisers, like a consumer course…how to wisely buy a car, what tactics are used by sales people, manipulative language to be aware of, etc. etc. after all politics is simply a sales pitch…recignize one, recognize all.