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Big_Bird
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 Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
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| Why can't propaganda be used for the greater good? Why is it necessarily always evil? |
Ever read The Lord of the Rings? I see it very much like the Ring. I do not mean to be flippant or propose this as an exact analogy. I merely suggest an image that most might immediately understand. |
Yes I have, Smeagol. 
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| In any case, I hope you would know that I try not to use words like "good" and "evil." It is a mistake, in my view, to go this way, to treat our audiences this way. Short-sighted. We may win this or that immediate victory but we will never make less-intelligent or gullible people any smarter or more sophisticated by treating them this way. And we remain vulnerable to someone more clever (there is always someone more clever) than us using the same thing against whatever our interests may be. |
In some ways you are preaching to the converted. But as I've said, it exists, and is regularly being used. If you need to reach a certain audience, it's really your only option. Sometimes you need to 'fight fire with fire.'
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| I realize I am going against the current on this (e.g., not only political and reform-oriented campaigns but everyday marketing and advertising campaigns as well; it is indeed embedded in most people's thinking that this is the way to go) -- and I think this especially ironic given this is primarily or ostensibly a board of educators. Very well. So be it. |
Well, there you are. It's an insiduous part of life - in evidence whenever we watch a commercial on the telly. What are you going to do about eradicating it, Gopher. I think the battle is lost.
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| I have stated my objections, then. Have your way with the rabble, Ms. Lenin. Cultivate their outrage, intimidate them, excite them, scare them, whatever... |
I shall particularly enjoy the 'scaring them' part!  |
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