The Effects of Propaganda

Not only do the effects of propaganda modify opinions and attitudes but it also affects impulses, mental, and emotional structures.

Different media produces different effects.

Impressions are made by going to the movies, reading the newspaper, or even watching a game at the stadium. Orchestrating and combining these mediums are key effects of propaganda. There is always this complementary type of character associated with propaganda. Studying the effects of each medium is advised.

Stereotypes in Motion

"A clicking machine, like a human hurricane."

propaganda has a way of bringing out latent drives and traits within an individual.

propaganda can furnish objectives and organize a personality into a mold. An example would be a prejudice about an event. propaganda will reinforce the individuals feelings by proclaiming the same trait openly. Giving the individual a sense of sharing the same opinion with the larger crowd. The stronger the conflict, the stronger the prejudice. This has the tendency to harden the individual prejudice so much that any pressure to the contrary is immediately reactive.

propaganda defines individual stereotypes with labels, slogans, and ready made judgments. Transforming ideas into headlines, sound bytes, and memes. Thus, by giving the ‘Word’ it convinces an individual that he or she as an opinion.



The Woke Thread (Remember Up Is Down Right Is Left)

Art, Propaganda and Death  in Ancient Rome

What is immediately striking in the representation of the male players is that they are so often depicted in some form of military dress.

This introduces one of the central paradoxes of this notional age of peace and harmony. For while the Emperor Augustus, a victorious general and founder of the imperial system, was seldom represented as a warrior, the emperors of the second century relentlessly emphasized this role.

But these improvements were mainly financed by war booty, especially what was gained from 101 to 106 during the conquest of Dacia — a kingdom centered on present-day Romania and Moldova.

These wars were celebrated in the spiraling friezes of Trajan’s Column on the edge of the Trajan Forum, the first column of its kind and the first depictions of an emperor on campaign. The Trajan Forum itself was adorned with multiple images of the Dacian Wars in the form of statues, reliefs and decorative elements of the victorious emperor and of defeated Dacians.

But as some of the subsequent sarcophagi and funerary panels show, monuments also preserved information about more humble classes. One panel here has a vivid relief of a Roman butcher shop. Another pair of reliefs gives two scenes of a deceased artisan’s life: one of him at his anvil and another in an apron behind the counter of his shop, proudly displaying for sale an array of the metal tools he had manufactured.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/arts/...way12.html

The most basic form of mind control is repetition. lol

The woke culture is built up with many pre-determined archetypes mixing and matching with accessories.

Upgrades abound!

Choose your 'ism' and be in the crowd!

All stereotypes are directly related to symbols.

Ready made value judgements are contained in symbols. Along with passionate cliches and slogans this glues the group together. A stereotype is akin to an archetype in that it has its own opinion and personal position. It helps individuals take a personal investment in its attitudes and helps an individual to avoid thinking. This reflex action is ready made and seemingly spontaneous. A symbol awakens the stereotype and permits favorable responses to all associated with it. Mentioning a quote by a famous author has a different effect if the quote is mentioned without an influencing stereotype.

An argument can be made to say that propaganda tends toward creating religious personalities. Using the term ‘sacred’ around man and to make him adhere to ‘sacred’ values is a long standing historical tradition.

propaganda traffics mostly in emotions, and not just negative ones.

Propagandists appeal to our fears but also to our courage, our hatred, and our love. The fact that propaganda is at heart an emotional manipulation also does not mean that our emotions and “emotionality” are bad. It means that our emotional system can be manipulated to destructive ends.

The antidote to the process of propaganda is the process of finding factual truth. The best way we have for doing that is through scientific inquiry, which referees competing claims systematically based on evidence. The propagandist process subordinates the facts to an agenda, even at the price of distorting or ignoring the facts altogether. For science, factual truth is the agenda; it follows the evidence wherever it might lead. Anything counter-factual, anything that obscures or distorts the truth is anathema to the scientific project. Propaganda knows how to sell a product. Science knows how to shop smart.
The Con of Propaganda

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The Importance of Archetypes

A mechanism of integrated propaganda is the use of projection through hero worship.

Masters of the Universe propaganda must change the very conscience of the citizen. Alienation through propaganda is key. To be alienated means to be someone other than one self. The group consensus is all. Propagandists will reinforce inclinations, free the ego of doubt, even conflict and suffering. This fusion with others will cause attachment to a leader or group with a great cause. This makes one feel united in great things by pushing the individual into a mass authority.

https://youtu.be/WN-aCYVVtyo

Propaganda has a way of bringing out latent drives and traits within an individual.

Propaganda can furnish objectives and organize a personality into a mold. An example would be a prejudice about an event. Propaganda will reinforce the individuals feelings by proclaiming the same trait openly. Giving the individual a sense of sharing the same opinion with the larger crowd. The stronger the conflict, the stronger the prejudice. This has the tendency to harden the individual prejudice so much that any pressure to the contrary is immediately reactive.

Propaganda defines individual stereotypes with labels, slogans, and ready made judgments. Transforming ideas into headlines, sound bytes, and memes. Thus, by giving the ‘Word’ it convinces an individual that he or she as an opinion.



The Woke Thread (Remember Up Is Down Right Is Left)

 

What disappears in the individual when the importance of archetypes is paramount?

Simple answer: critical and personal judgement. Thought is limited because ready made explanations and stereotypes are provided for him. And just like a video game one gets to choose a character:

The propaganda from each would limit the individuals it contains. Each letting the whole dictate their thought patterns. Each individual must work within the framework provided. Criticism and imagination are not permitted or are severely curtailed. The importance of archetypes is now fully integrated.

There is no such thing as collective critical judgement. propaganda creates an artificial passion for the individual to generate. Obviously, individual critical judgment disappears. All thoughts, values, and prejudices are related to the complex array created within the propaganda. If deprived of one propaganda, a propagandee will immediately adopt another.

There is a heuristic most of us use to determine what to do, think, say, and buy: the principle of social proof. To learn what is correct, we look at what other people are doing. In his bestselling book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, psychologist Robert Cialdini writes, “Whether the question is what to do with an empty popcorn box in a movie theater, how fast to drive on a certain stretch of highway, or how to eat the chicken at a dinner party, the actions of those around us will be important in defining the answer.” Social proof is a shortcut to decide how to act.

Clearly, others affect our behavior. One reason for this is that we live in a complex world. We use the decisions of others as a heuristic, or mental shortcut, to navigate our lives. English philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once said, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.”

In his book Influence, Cialdini uses the example of advertisers informing us that a product is the “fastest-growing” or “best-selling.” Advertisers don’t have to persuade us that a product is good, they only need to say others think so.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...-the-crowd