[angaq0k]

From this website: Attention on Deck! Violation of Rule_17!

There was an interesting link regarding propaganda, as described by Joseph Goebbels.

I though it was relevant because propaganda affects us all, whether we are on the right or the left, the center or wherever else.

GOEBBELS' PRINCIPLES OF PROPAGANDA

Based upon Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda by Leonard W. Doob, published in Public Opinion and Propaganda; A Book of Readings edited for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.

2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
c. It must oversee other agencies' activities which have propaganda consequences

3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.

4. Propaganda must affect the enemy's policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity

5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign

6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.

7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.

8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.

9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.

10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.

11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.

12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness

14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof

15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.

16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves

17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective

18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

I think we need to take a long and hard look at ourselves when we access information, and transmit it afterwards. Our responsibilities in creating confusion because of mixed messages and the search for Truth (does that exist?) may actually be a part of the propaganda process.

Confusion creates a situation where people feel forced to pick a size. With the anxiety created by the uncertainty from the confusion, I wonder if picking up a size is not, actually, the search for some umbrella, which blinds us as well from the Truth, or whatever comes close to it...

[Shaddim]

Originally posted by angaq0k:
From this website: Attention on Deck! Violation of Rule_17!

There was an interesting link regarding propaganda, as described by Joseph Goebbels.

I though it was relevant because propaganda affects us all, whether we are on the right or the left, the center or wherever else.



I think we need to take a long and hard look at ourselves when we access information, and transmit it afterwards. Our responsibilities in creating confusion because of mixed messages and the search for Truth (does that exist?) may actually be a part of the propaganda process.

Confusion creates a situation where people feel forced to pick a size. With the anxiety created by the uncertainty from the confusion, I wonder if picking up a size is not, actually, the search for some umbrella, which blinds us as well from the Truth, or whatever comes close to it...

With all due respect, I don't look for truth on an internet forum. It would be nigh impossible for anything said here to change my mind. I'm just here for entertainment. Nothing here should be taken too seriously, there's enough in our lives for us to focus on.

[theolein]

I always wondered where Karl Rove learned his trade.

[Tokencon]

Originally posted by angaq0k:
From this website: Attention on Deck! Violation of Rule_17!

There was an interesting link regarding propaganda, as described by Joseph Goebbels.

I though it was relevant because propaganda affects us all, whether we are on the right or the left, the center or wherever else.



I think we need to take a long and hard look at ourselves when we access information, and transmit it afterwards. Our responsibilities in creating confusion because of mixed messages and the search for Truth (does that exist?) may actually be a part of the propaganda process.

Confusion creates a situation where people feel forced to pick a size. With the anxiety created by the uncertainty from the confusion, I wonder if picking up a size is not, actually, the search for some umbrella, which blinds us as well from the Truth, or whatever comes close to it...

Two things...as someone else notes in this thread, taking anything on a web site without a grain of salt is...risky. Secondly: and therefore, what?

Tokenconservative
P.s.: I have a number of "weapons." I have never terrorized anyone with one of them...my rapier wit is a much more blunt instrument.

[Face Ache]

Originally posted by Tokencon:
my rapier wit is a much more blunt instrument.

Indeed.

[Meneldil]

Originally posted by theolein:

How do you know Tung Chee-hwa likes to eat meat?

[theolein]

Originally posted by Meneldil:
How do you know Tung Chee-hwa likes to eat meat?

I have no idea actually. I was reading the news a couple of days ago and came across the PRC's putting the handbreak on direct elections of the government and leader of HK. It made me a bit angry because I feel that the PRC is breaking its pledges made when HK was signed over to China with the special autonomic zone, i.e one country two systems. So, I decided to have my little dig at Tung Chee-Wa. Not speaking a word of Chinese I found a list of expressions on the English PLA site and made a little image based on that. Voila.

[Meneldil]

Originally posted by theolein:
I have no idea actually. I was reading the news a couple of days ago and came across the PRC's putting the handbreak on direct elections of the government and leader of HK. It made me a bit angry because I feel that the PRC is breaking its pledges made when HK was signed over to China with the special autonomic zone, i.e one country two systems. So, I decided to have my little dig at Tung Chee-Wa. Not speaking a word of Chinese I found a list of expressions on the English PLA site and made a little image based on that. Voila.

Was just curious and amused - he's been on the news a lot, as the government continues to tell us about how everything is peachy and the leadership of HK thinks no democracy is just dandy. In my opinion, he's a creepy little mainland stooge, but I don't know much about him so I shouldn't talk. Now I should lock my door in case the commies are listening in.

[ghost_flash]

Originally posted by MacNStein:
With all due respect, I don't look for truth on an internet forum. It would be nigh impossible for anything said here to change my mind. I'm just here for entertainment. Nothing here should be taken too seriously, there's enough in our lives for us to focus on.

Right on. I come in here for the entertainment, and it keeps the mind busy for a while.