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Bonus Posts: Modern Propaganda

4/18/2016

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Propaganda Bonus Assignment: As we have discussed, the war for public opinion was never more important than with the advent of modern, total war. Couple of ways to accrue some extra points here. The first is to respond to one of these quotes with your own perspective / evidentiary-based comment. Another is to post an example of modern propaganda and explain its details. This later option would obviously garner more points as it requires more time and laborious thinking...but I bet it would be worth it! Happy History WHAP. 
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Image to the right courtesey of Jeff Gates, Chamomile Tea Party; for more, visit: http://chamomileteaparty.com)

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” 
― George Orwell, 1984

“All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.” 
― Upton Sinclair

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” 
― George Orwell

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.” 
― Joseph Goebbels

“There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.” 
― John F. Kennedy

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” 
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” 
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

“We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.” 
― B.W. Powe, Towards A Canada Of Light​

​“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” 
― Lysander Spoone

“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny us. If we don't assert our truth, it may again be relegated to fantasy. But the truth won't go away. It will keep surfacing until it is recognized. Truth will outlast any campaigns mounted against it, no matter how mighty, clever, or long. It is invincible. It's only a matter of which generation is willing to face it and, in so doing, protect future generations from ritual abuse.” 
― Chrystine Oksana, Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse

“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.” 
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.”
― Ward Churchill

“It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.” 
― Aldous Huxley

“But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.” 
― Adolf Hitler

“Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” 
― Hermann Göring
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“Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.” 
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.” 

― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” 

― Winston S. Churchill

“Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.” 
― Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

“A fool will believe anything.”--PROVERBS 14:15

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Brittany D.
4/18/2016 09:33:00 pm

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” 
― Winston S. Churchill
This quote reveals that the truth can be hidden when it is seen as fit for the situation. During wars the truth is so rare that it has to be covered up with lies that are seen as protecting it; though a possible solution could be keeping the truth silent instead of creating something that would actually hinder it's purpose.

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Michelle Breucop
4/18/2016 10:07:22 pm

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
― Joseph Goebbels

This quote emphasizes the power of repetition and knowledge. It shows how it just takes one idea, one person, and a strong belief in a thought that could change a fact to something completely different despite the obvious evidence. This relates to propooganda by showing how propooganda uses the same method in repeating it's message across to the audience and emphasizing it so strongly, that what was true before, becomes an entire new story.

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Michelle Breucop
4/18/2016 10:39:14 pm


http://img09.deviantart.net/865f/i/2012/252/5/6/mcdonalds_at_caltex_answer_2_by_creavity-d5e3b90.jpg

(sorry I didn't know how to make the picture appear ?)

The image is an example of modern propaganda using the well-known fast food chain restaurant, McDonald's. The image suggests to buy a meal consisting of large fries, a Big Mac, and a large Coke, leading on to the result of "feeling good." This is propaganda because it is leading the consumer to believe that by eating a sandwich that is full of fat, and of terrible quality and to drink a Coke made up almost entirely of sugar, it will actually "fuel" them. However, there is even scientific evidence to reject the meal's benefits along with the statement of "fueling up and feeling good." The propoganda, the lie, is the idea of eating their product to be good for you.

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Jason Martin
4/18/2016 11:04:45 pm


“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

Dissecting this quote, it expresses the idea that those that are uneducated, maybe say enslaved people's can be much easier to educate than those that are educated already, because after one is educated they wish to follow their principles and goals. Even though it's not easy to re-educate the mis-educated, it's still possible. This leads us to propaganda, which was used in The Great War to set other goals to the educated to re-educate them into what propaganda wanted them to achieve and believe.

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Mateo Markovic
4/19/2016 07:00:07 am

https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/6377327/il_fullxfull.263422218.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/86/b8/77/86b877acd96890316471ddf322101ee5.jpg

Propaganda can also be between targeted between two competing companies to sway the consumers opinion into purchasing one of the other. The first image is in favor of Apple and I believe is influencing the audience to purchase bonds in Apple. (Apparently even though Apple has billions they still sell bonds with cheap interest rates.) And the second is supporting Android by mocking apple and calling it a "Rotten" Apple.

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Hannah Uranga
4/20/2016 11:34:59 am

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQv9UESsGG50MLtNDCwezxdJrMPicHi5NbzsDhDExKfv-qQONP8

This propaganda is apart of the anti-abortion movement created by those who are pro-life. This is mainly directed to those who are considering having an abortion or those pro-choice. This piece puts a strong emphasize on the audience's pathos as it portrays a living child who is too weak to support their own hand and is voiceless, representing all of the unborn children and possibly your future child as well, attempting to have a say through the support of somebody else's hand, perhaps representing the audience's potential support, saying that they do not wish to be aborted. As the audience now how has this image of a child being helpless or killed, no longer will they wish to follow through or believe in the procedure at all thus siding with the creators' point of view.

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Michelle Breucop
4/20/2016 10:51:16 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_Hope_poster.jpg

This propaganda is to evoke nationalism and pride. The message of "hope" along with the bold red, white, and blue indicates a strong feeling of unity and a common goal. The common goal being hope of change, a better economy, life, hope for more. A simple yet powerful message is conveyed through the poster. The audience would be moved by the red, white, and blue as an obvious sign of America, that everyone participating is an American and the common hope is for the country to become something more, an improvement.

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Alexis Marquez link
4/24/2016 12:08:04 pm

This propaganda is a poster for SeaWorld, associating it with negative concepts such as slavery and lying. The poster specifically appeals to the parents as the audience because they want the parents who bring their children to realize that they are actually observing slavery first-hand, since the animals are locked up in a tank just for your entertainment. This piece of propaganda mostly portrays to the audience’s pathos by trying to “tug at your heart strings” to get you to feel bad for the animals and hopefully take that into consideration when deciding if you should go on a trip to SeaWorld. This poster also hopefully makes parents realize that they are teaching their children that slavery is acceptable, whether it be animals or people. I feel that this poster’s purpose it to try to get the public to boycott SeaWorld. I think that they hope that America fears that if they do not individually boycott SeaWorld, America will lose its identity and values of freedom and happiness.
https://propagandacritic.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/b9de17d196a2589f3a309a047186e731.jpg

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