Propaganda: Nobody Does It Better Than America

[McKenzie]

someone just posted pictures of * et al on stage behind a load of flags. I replied to say the imagery was eerily reminscent of the type of Nazi iconography generated by the Nuremberg (Nurnberg to be pedantic) Rallies, as did others.

That got me thinking so I went Googling. I found a paper written in Germany on the inter-relationship between Nazi propaganda and the lessons that the Nazis learned from American techniques. The parallels with what the pics mentioned above show, and current methods of appealing to sentiment, rather than reason, are frightening.

BTW, the article has almost certainly been translated from German so forgive some of the quirkiness in the grammar.

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American advertising and propaganda has been refined over the years into a malevolent science, based on the assumption that most people react, not to ideas, but to naked emotion When I worked at an ad agency many years ago, I learned that the successful agencies know how to appeal to emotions: the stronger and baser, the better The seven deadly sins, ad agency wags often say, are the key to selling products Fear, envy, greed, hatred, and lust: these are the basic tools for good propaganda and effective advertising By far, the most powerful motivating emotion—the top, most-sought-after copy writers will tell you, in an unguarded moment'is fear, followed closely by greed

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This brings us to the latest iteration of masterful American Propaganda: the War on Terrorism Any attempt to explain why the terrorists crazed as they obviously were felt motivated to attack the World Trade Center is looked on as "siding with the terrorists" Indeed, Ashcroft and Bush have said, in so many words, that if you don't support them in everything they do, you stand with the terrorists Ashcroft and Bush have evidently studied their propaganda lessons from World War II, when Roosevelt silenced all opposition by accusing anyone who stood against him of undermining the war effort Anyone who suggests we should not risk World War III by invading the Middle East is alternately accused of siding with the terrorists, of slandering the memory of those who died, or of course of not "standing by our boys" in times of great need It's easy to feel alienated in a nation of flag-wavers singing patriotic hymns The fact that they are marching lockstep to a world in which the government will monitor their e-mail, snoop into their bank accounts, and eventually throw them in jail for voicing opposition doesn't seem to bother them one bit

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http://www.politikforum.de/forum/archive/8/2002/03/1/15047

[Crankie Avalon]

1. Have you seen this photo from today?...

How's that for Nazi iconography.

But I guess it's successful propaganda--there are people that can actually look at that photo and have a positive reaction to it.

To me, it seems like such an obvious representation of evil--an angry little man up there alone with nothing but faceless uniformed automatons behind him in the shadows.

[McKenzie]

2. yup, that's the one that got me thinking. thnx n/t

[mcscajun]

3. Damn! That's the scariest * pic to date!

I may just have nightmares now. :::shudder:::

[Canuckistanian]

5. Pay no attention to the man behind the podium

For I am the great Wizard of Flaws!

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Brainwashing America.

Dr. Norman Lvergood, is a former Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the US Army War College


Brainwashing America
by Dr. Norman Livergood

The puppet Bush regime is using new, aggressive forms of brainwashing to change the very way Americans think and feel.

This is the psychological dimension of the "High Cabal's" general onslaught against American workers, just as the "war on terrorism" is the military dimension and corporate crime and tax cuts for the rich comprise the economic dimension.

We are living under the beginning stages of a military dictatorship in precisely the same way that 1930s Germans suffered under the Nazi regime.

As in the case of Nazi Germany, state-sponsored propaganda (brainwashing) is a vital part of the Bush regime's strategy.

More at:
http://www.new-enlightenment.com/brainwash1.htm