silencedogood on Nostr: When I was in 5th grade, my class took a field trip to the Holocaust museum in DC. A ...
When I was in 5th grade, my class took a field trip to the Holocaust museum in DC.
A central lesson of the trip was understanding the Nazi propaganda machine so as to recognize what propaganda is and not let such a thing proliferate again in the future. Even for a 5th grader, the propaganda of the 1940s was blatantly over-the-top and ridiculous in hindsight.
Failure of a large portion of society to recognize propaganda today is disappointing at best and unpardonable at worse.
If you think you’re immune to propaganda, you don’t understand it. You’re either aware of the programming or the programming worked.
A central lesson of the trip was understanding the Nazi propaganda machine so as to recognize what propaganda is and not let such a thing proliferate again in the future. Even for a 5th grader, the propaganda of the 1940s was blatantly over-the-top and ridiculous in hindsight.
Failure of a large portion of society to recognize propaganda today is disappointing at best and unpardonable at worse.
If you think you’re immune to propaganda, you don’t understand it. You’re either aware of the programming or the programming worked.