Posted on 04/06/2015 4:33:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The takeaway is that images are the most powerful means of communication. The human brain is designed to process images rather than words, and it may even be instinctive for us to accept any image as the truth. This was certainly the case until our ancestors learned to draw pictures. Images can also fascinate us and hold our attention in seconds, in contrast to words, in which the Propaganda Man may lose interest.
Psychological warfare, therefore, involves the planned and scientific use of images to win the Propaganda Man's support. The purpose of these images is not, like a Charlie Hebdo or Doonesbury cartoon, to entertain. Their purpose is to win wars, and preferably before the first shot is fired. The Islamist enemy is terrified of images, and rightly so, as was the infamous Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall. "Those Damned Pictures!"
"Let’s stop them damn pictures. I don’t care so much what the papers write about – my constituents can’t read – but damn it, they can see pictures." So said William Marcy Tweed, who was eventually sent to prison for corruption. Tweed's most feared enemy was cartoonist Thomas Nast, the creator of the Republican Elephant, Democratic Donkey, the familiar plump and jolly Santa Claus, and, more infamously, anti-Catholic and anti-Irish cartoons. Figure 2 shows one of Nast's many anti-Tweed cartoons.
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While images and videos are the most effective forms of PsyWar, jokes also work. As an example, "What do you get when you bomb a Palestinian hospital, school, or mosque?" The Propaganda Man thinks he is about to hear a cruel and insensitive joke by those nasty Israelis until he gets the punch line: "Secondary explosions."
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It is going to take alot more than pictures and cartoons...
Excellent article. Won’t happen under this president.
Psyops riles other groups against Islamists, which is a good thing.
What we also need is psyops to incite muslims against islamists.
But.....
Buttt..................
Thaaat would be tooo waysissst!!!!!!
Your photo memes show this is the perfect article for you, very insightful.
Doonesbury’s purpose is just to entertain? Sound like this article itself is PsyWar.
It takes about five minutes to make a meme like this one, beginning with a search on Bing Images for homosexual wedding cakes. Paste it into MS "Paint" (every PC has it) and add the black border and captions. Five minutes.
This kind takes a little more time, mainly to add the crosses and crescents. Maybe ten minutes on Paint.
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This one is an attempt at a history lesson, important when half of Americans don't know whether the Civil War or Revolutionary War came first, or who won either.
I just use the thumbnail photos found on Bing for the small insets.
Good article and good strategic thinking!
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