New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 110
Our present circumstance is a political warfare battlefield, like it or not. That means we are inundated with propaganda from all sides. Propaganda, of course, takes many forms, and one of the most common, subtle, and effective is what can be called “telling the truth, falsely,” or “being right, wrongly.” In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay outlines this bread-and-butter propaganda tactic to help you become better able to see it and resist it. Join him to improve your psychological warfare skill set.
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I have not watched the video yet, but thought I’d throw out a few general remarks because I’m sort of jacked up on caffeine.
Propaganda is advertising for a political or social cause. If your faction produces it, it’s good; if your political opponents do, it’s bad.
Persuasion of any sort in the service of evil is of course something to be concerned about, but if you have the ability to understand what a commercial is doing to try to sell you corn flakes, you can understand what a political faction is trying to do with their propaganda. All the appeals of classical rhetoric apply and then some, according to the dark arts of film, video, and now AI. Everyone likes to believe that they can see through propagandistic persuasion, but even the most cynical and well-read people can be persuaded by it because it traffics in emotions first, and Mr. Spock is a fictional character only half human.
No surprise that the origin comes from the Church, probably the Jesuits, the “propagation of the faith,” broadcasting seeds of religious doctrine with the hope they take root.
Onward Christian Soldiers!