“They should just protest/go on the street/revolt/start a revolution” when talking about Russia or, to some extend, other countries like China or Noth Korea.
It’s not even that this is a highly brutal military state that will kill you without blinking. Or that they will not just put you in prison but threaten your family if you dare to resist. It’s not even the cover ups, or that no news on easily accessible media would run a story about your case.
I’d argue it is the underestimation of how propaganda gets you. All of you. All of us, me and you. No one is immune. And I’m not just talking about “oh our government and leader is the best”. I’m talking about generations of oppression where you know that this one uncle or neighbor who tried something, who tried to be different, to change something, just brought destruction over himself and his loved ones. It’s the propaganda of “just look away, don’t bother, your actions won’t change anything, just try to live your life as nicely as you can”.
Thinking people who were raised with this mindset, by people who have the same mindset because they in turn were raised by people with a similar mindset, can just “get up and revolt” is so naive.
I also want that, sure, I also want them to get up and revolt, desperately, but man, you have no idea, do you.
People in countries like China don’t revolt because the system works for them and supports them. It’s ironic that you claim propaganda impacts all of us, while then immediately repeating the most bog-standard anti-communist propaganda straight from the US state department. I highly recommend reading False Witnesses, “Brainwashing”, and Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing” in order to better understand how people think, and how propaganda actually works. Propaganda works by providing justification for what people perceive to materially benefit them, not by simply convincing them of fantasy.
“They should just protest/go on the street/revolt/start a revolution” when talking about Russia or, to some extend, other countries like China or Noth Korea.
It’s not even that this is a highly brutal military state that will kill you without blinking. Or that they will not just put you in prison but threaten your family if you dare to resist. It’s not even the cover ups, or that no news on easily accessible media would run a story about your case.
I’d argue it is the underestimation of how propaganda gets you. All of you. All of us, me and you. No one is immune. And I’m not just talking about “oh our government and leader is the best”. I’m talking about generations of oppression where you know that this one uncle or neighbor who tried something, who tried to be different, to change something, just brought destruction over himself and his loved ones. It’s the propaganda of “just look away, don’t bother, your actions won’t change anything, just try to live your life as nicely as you can”.
Thinking people who were raised with this mindset, by people who have the same mindset because they in turn were raised by people with a similar mindset, can just “get up and revolt” is so naive.
I also want that, sure, I also want them to get up and revolt, desperately, but man, you have no idea, do you.
Funny, CIA wants them to revolt too.
People in countries like China don’t revolt because the system works for them and supports them. It’s ironic that you claim propaganda impacts all of us, while then immediately repeating the most bog-standard anti-communist propaganda straight from the US state department. I highly recommend reading False Witnesses, “Brainwashing”, and Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing” in order to better understand how people think, and how propaganda actually works. Propaganda works by providing justification for what people perceive to materially benefit them, not by simply convincing them of fantasy.