Yesterday’s piece took a little longer to finish, because it’s Part 1 of 2 on propaganda: a conversation I don't think we were ready to have earlier in the throes of war, but are maybe better prepared to discuss today.
The fact is, we differ immensely on the question of what we owe to one another, and to the societies we inhabit.
Are we prepared for the consequences of that difference, in times of (information) war?
#Humanism
#MediaLiteracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/war-propaganda-and-notions-of-civic
@MLClark "History is written by the victors" definitely applies to WWII and others in our past. Controlling the media writes the present.
Agreed. I'll just add that what these latest wars serve to remind us of is that top-down "control" of the media doesn't need to be very nuanced. We're living in a Huxley vs. Orwell scenario, where Huxley's notion of humans who *want* to be led and lulled and soothed unfortunately wins out. Many of us, out of patriotism or similar, are eager to be told what we need to do, and think, and say, to serve our states / societies today.