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Old September 1st, 2013 #1
Karl Radl
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What is Propaganda?

By Karl Radl



Propaganda as a term is today equated with the deliberate spreading of misinformation about a given subject. This is held to be completely different from the diffusion of ‘truth’, but there is a subtle problem inherent within the idea that there is a differentiation between ‘propaganda’ and the ‘spreading of truth’.

In so far as: how can you possibly tell the difference between the two?

What I mean by this is: how can you know is propaganda and what is truth?

After all does not somebody who believes the Illuminati are a satanic conspiracy that is attempting to or currently ruling the world spreading the truth or is he spreading propaganda?

That person likely believes what they are arguing for or distributing information about is the truth, but yet most people would label this as a ‘crank theory’ and an example of the twisting of information into propaganda for a specific cause (i.e. misinformation).

But how can you judge the person purporting this information to be purporting misinformation (as you likely have not investigated the subject at hand and therefore cannot have formed a definite opinion from your own research on the subject)?

Yet most would without this research judge the type of person above to be purporting misinformation, but what do we know about the subject?

Other than what we are told is the case by others who are like the person purporting the idea that the Illuminati are a modern conspiracy (etc) in so far as they are spreading their version of the truth of course.

So we have a bit of a problem there: don’t we?

On the one hand we would naturally call the proponent of one view a propagandist in the colloquial sense of the term, but yet we have made that decision based on somebody else’s view that we have taken as truth or received opinion.

So why do we trust the one and not the other?

The fact is that it is because one is accepted by the group that we belong to and the other is not accepted and therefore we are inclined to trust the opinion of our group.

We can see this in that there are general ‘truths’; what we might call mythos i.e. myths required by the group in order to keep it cohesive, in every society and every sub-set of society.

For example it is taken as self-evident by those adhering to alternative sub-culture that ‘trendies’; or rather people who follow the more usual fashion and music trends, are ‘sheep’ and believe that their ‘alternative style and taste’ means that they are somehow superior to these others. The inverse also occurs in slightly different fashion among those of ‘alternative’ tastes.

In essence we can see simply that propaganda does not mean spreading disinformation, but rather it simply means advocating something explicitly or tacitly'

For example we engage in propaganda do we not when we put our curriculum vitae, or resume, together in that we don’t present ourselves warts and all, but rather we try as best we can to airbrush the warts out so we seem to be the perfect candidate.

If you think about it a moment you can see that the media in the class propaganda formulation; i.e. the media ‘brainwashing the mass of the population’, is very similar in that the media is also airbrushing out the warts and deciding essentially what you should; and should not, be told.

This doesn’t mean that propaganda doesn’t mean spreading misinformation, but it is much more general than that in so far as one spreads ones views through it as a medium and the presentation of specific bits of an event or suppressing/putting to the fore different news stories evokes different reactions among the viewers.

For example in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict for example one tends to find that the pro-jewish side puts forward all the ‘good things’ Israel does and actively suppresses/justifies any ‘bad things’ it does. This is likewise for the Palestinian side.

All that is going on here is the suppression or bringing to the fore of certain facts/reports/rumours etc that come to the propagandist and are then filtered according to the agenda that the propagandist has (either being his or her own or their bosses agenda).

Eventually this propaganda becomes ingrained in the collective memory of the group and becomes mythos or ‘common knowledge’ if you will independently of whether it is actually true or not (popularly for example it is believed that thousands of witches were burned at the stake in France, but this is not consonant with scholarship which has long since [in the 1970s by the jewish academic Norman Cohn] held this to not be true since it is based on a literal interpretation of Nicolas Remy’s account for which we have no court records to back up any of his claims [which we should have if it happened]).

In essence then we have to understand that pretty much everything we do; or have done to us, is propaganda (even within a relationship for example after all would you want your boyfriend or girlfriend finding out about your bad habits on a first date?) in some form and that it is not a 'dirty term', but rather a frankly accurate one.
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Old September 11th, 2013 #2
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Telling lies twisting the truth just like what must Jews do.
 
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