Posted on 10/16/2024 11:35:34 PM PDT by Red6
This film was made to sell to high school media departments who purchased it to show to their juniors and seniors. Students in public high schools were being exposed to the concept of propaganda, especially given the context of World War II and the early Cold War. At this time there was an emphasis on educating citizens, including school children, about the role of propaganda. Would anyone make a film like this to run in schools involving media fake media or not?
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Two reasons:
1.) We no longer teach kids how to think. Those that made it through high school in the 50s and 60s received a better education than today, and that can be backed with standardized testing where we can see the scores dropping over time, or the complete lack of knowledge in certain areas which once were taught.
Today we focus little time on what the fallacies are and how to identify them. We do not instruct much on formal or the mechanics of logic. Math skills are abysmal and math teaches one how to think. Finally, and what this film addresses, we do not spend much time on teaching kids how to recognize advertising or propaganda.
Our education system was never really designed to create thinkers, although for a time it did have fairly high standards. It was borne out of the industrial revolution and need to have semi-literate factory workers. Why do you think schools are M-F, 8-5? Socialize them to be use to a regular work week. That's not a bad thing since school should prepare one for adult/independent life and joining the labor pool.
2.) I would like to explain the nuance difference between propaganda and advertising. Propaganda is a pejorative usually used by someone in disagreement, and it is a term usually used in context with a foreign politician, nation, or opposition politician, party, etc. Advertising uses many of the same techniques, but it's when the private sector does this in order to influence a consumer. (((Both attempt to change perceptions in order to influence behaviors.)))
The term propaganda has become cliche. Nonetheless, it is used often in an attempt to make the listener or reader discount what they heard or read. Instead of arguing the facts, it is an attack on the source of the information. It would be the same as calling someone a racist and using this attack to make people reject what they heard from that source.
Interesting that they used to teach this.
BTTT
Many who comment on internet forums these days are, knowingly (as paid hacks) or unknowingly (as dupes or “useful idiots”) conveying propaganda.
It stands to reason that anyone who’s “plying the trade”, as it were, would know inherently that educating the general public about what they are doing will reduce the pubic’s susceptibility to their consultation.
Hence not only must the art of propaganda not be taught as a subject matter in schools, the schoolchildren must be taught to believe that it does not exist in the modern world.
Since the word “propaganda” is now said to represent a cliche, their work on both counts appears complete.
Evil (satan) and the preternatural are similarly disbelieved as to their very existence in the modern world.
Do you think hardened Cold-warrior Archbishop Fulton Sheen would have put up with even a minute of this, one iota of this, without artistically and rhetorically squealing like a stuck pig?
“Would anyone make a film like this to run in schools involving media fake media or not?”
Guessing Trump, RFK Jr., and Trump woul do so.
Arguably we are not only in a new Cold war, the enemy is fully within our borders, and we are losing badly.
America & its military are evil. That propaganda is true, however, it all depends, on how our military is used by its leaders. Its overuse since the end of the Cold-War has been done o the determent of this nation, ensnarling it into forever wars who purpose is not to defeat a threat, but to generate wealth for those invested in the military-industrial complex.
Far too many people fell for what used to be necessary when the Soviet Union still existed, but then became the threat for Russia when the Soviet Union had collapsed.
Most people do not see that our leaders have become the Soviet Union while Russia has become less iron fisted. Many of our leaders now engage in the same tactics that we saw Soviet Union engage, while abandoning the core principles we once championed. It is no uncommon anymore to hear words such as too much freedom being the problem in the U.S., and that, that is the problem here, while claiming they are saving "Democracy". However, it is not a unique problem to just the U.S. as all of the Allied nations of WWII have descended down that slippery slope towards tyranny.
Very well said...
Ditto !!!
Ditto !!!
Dittos !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH4j5NiJAiE
Thanks for your video. Above is a cartoon, also from 1948, warning about “Ism’s”.
Thanks and good morning, NTI
Good Morning !!! May God bless us all today and every day which follows. Amen
...”Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn’t talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony”...
-Bob Dylan
“I am gross and perverted
I’m obsessed and deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I’m the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can’t look away
I make you think I’m delicious
With the stuff that I say
I’m the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I’m the slime oozin’ out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don’t need you
Don’t go for help, no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That’s right, folks, don’t touch that dial...”
-Frank Zappa
Frank was prophetic with that one.
Oh yes. It is employed to a shocking degree.
Sadly, In this, they are winning.
We protest, but they still employ it, immersing 99% of them in it while few are saved by their parents, a few more are saved by their upbringing, and a few more still are only saved after they leave high school or college and learn on their own.
It is the assembly line of indoctrination that makes future Leftists.
Dittos.
He wasn’t making any predictions. That’s how things were at the time...50+ years ago!
And while they were stealing a nation, "we" were relaxing at home.
BkMrk
your following up comment is spot on. I’ve been observing public “education” for 25 years and I see all your points first hand.
You think kids underperform now, wait until AI is unleased fully in classwork daily.
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