Propaganda is not advertising and advertising is not propaganda.
Thinking they are the same is a confusion in labeling.
II you assume they are the same, then you will turn your back on the lions, thinking you are facing the threat by dealing with some minor predator or another.
That's how I would want to be told about lions, if someone was trying to call my attention to them.
And this would be where I'd start to look into the danger that propaganda puts me in.
One of my rules of thumb is, to check if I'm looking at something that seems like something the CIA, M5, etc. might use during war to mislead an enemy's people. Not the generals. The masses.
I cut if off there as the first decision point. But only in pattern. If it is in any direction threat a to the unity of a nation, or if it pits two groups against each other, that's the second cut.
I never dismiss something. Not nowadays. Not published anytime after 1920.
I just scale it. But never to zero until I confirm the source. Propaganda is never truly benign.
My 2 cents. Take it or leave it.
Thinking they are the same is a confusion in labeling.
Propaganda is a field of engineering. It is science driven. It engineers a person's decision-making.
Advertising is a 'material' seldom used but for special applications. You cannot condirm it as propaganda unless you have something like the NSA to help you.
II you assume they are the same, then you will turn your back on the lions, thinking you are facing the threat by dealing with some minor predator or another.
That's how I would want to be told about lions, if someone was trying to call my attention to them.
And this would be where I'd start to look into the danger that propaganda puts me in.
A documentary: The Century of the Self. Available on YouTube.
One of my rules of thumb is, to check if I'm looking at something that seems like something the CIA, M5, etc. might use during war to mislead an enemy's people. Not the generals. The masses.
I cut if off there as the first decision point. But only in pattern. If it is in any direction threat a to the unity of a nation, or if it pits two groups against each other, that's the second cut.
That's almost certainly propaganda. But at that point, it's source unknown.
I never dismiss something. Not nowadays. Not published anytime after 1920.
I just scale it. But never to zero until I confirm the source. Propaganda is never truly benign.
My 2 cents. Take it or leave it.