I'm not sure many folks these days understand clearly enough how well propaganda these days has been tailored by both privately and publicly conducted scientific research to exploit our universal human nature.
That is, to exploit our universal human nature for someone else's gain than that of the individual humans who are the targets of propaganda. Or even the accidental casualties of propaganda that was meant for someone else.
That was my best effort today to help you see for yourself if it's possible that you do not know enough about something so absoltuely relevant to the science of propaganda, that you can not be reasonably certain that you have a personally useful enough understanding of how many ways and means lying can be professionally used to cripple your ability to captain your own life.
My 2 cents. Make of this however you will.
That is, to exploit our universal human nature for someone else's gain than that of the individual humans who are the targets of propaganda. Or even the accidental casualties of propaganda that was meant for someone else.
If you're curious about this, here's a quick, easy way to see for yourself if you think the test here might mean to you anything beyond what you already know about today's propaganda in something more less not too much like being 'last century news'.
It just makes sense, I think, that the science of propaganda has branches, and possibly subbranches, dedicated to how and why humans decide this or that 'truth' is actually true.
So far as I every reason to believe, one of the well established results of that science is just as well known to the 'interested' public as is anything else of a similar detail of science.
Here's the test: Simply see if you have heard of what we humans look to notice or discover as clues, signs, etc. about other people's behavior when they are speaking to us face to face about anything or everything -- in order to judge whether they are lying to us.
If you have somehow heard or seen before now a scientifically informed explanation of that stuff, and especially anything like a textbook chapter or two on this subject, then that's the equivalent of 'neutral' here -- or a yellow light. You're ok, but please don't assume you have found reason to believe propaganda can't influence you to take sides against what you yourself think of as what's best for you.
If you have not heard that scientists during the last century looked into and studied how and why humans decided if they are being lied to by someone whose face they can see, then please above all else do not assume you are either stupid or especially ignorant. You absolutely are NOT.
Human knowledge is so vast today it long ago became impossible for anyone to know enough of it that there are not perhaps an actual million ways they do not know enough about some area of knowledge that a Public Relations House could not assign a small team of trained specialists in how to lie to people to find out any number of ways they could be dupe, fooled, and delivered to some client as his her pawn, willing to do just about anything he secretly wants them to do.
To make sure: That was NOT a test for you to measure how well you understand propaganda. Not in any real sense of that. It just makes sense, I think, that the science of propaganda has branches, and possibly subbranches, dedicated to how and why humans decide this or that 'truth' is actually true.
So far as I every reason to believe, one of the well established results of that science is just as well known to the 'interested' public as is anything else of a similar detail of science.
Here's the test: Simply see if you have heard of what we humans look to notice or discover as clues, signs, etc. about other people's behavior when they are speaking to us face to face about anything or everything -- in order to judge whether they are lying to us.
If you have somehow heard or seen before now a scientifically informed explanation of that stuff, and especially anything like a textbook chapter or two on this subject, then that's the equivalent of 'neutral' here -- or a yellow light. You're ok, but please don't assume you have found reason to believe propaganda can't influence you to take sides against what you yourself think of as what's best for you.
If you have not heard that scientists during the last century looked into and studied how and why humans decided if they are being lied to by someone whose face they can see, then please above all else do not assume you are either stupid or especially ignorant. You absolutely are NOT.
Human knowledge is so vast today it long ago became impossible for anyone to know enough of it that there are not perhaps an actual million ways they do not know enough about some area of knowledge that a Public Relations House could not assign a small team of trained specialists in how to lie to people to find out any number of ways they could be dupe, fooled, and delivered to some client as his her pawn, willing to do just about anything he secretly wants them to do.
That was my best effort today to help you see for yourself if it's possible that you do not know enough about something so absoltuely relevant to the science of propaganda, that you can not be reasonably certain that you have a personally useful enough understanding of how many ways and means lying can be professionally used to cripple your ability to captain your own life.
My 2 cents. Make of this however you will.