Propaganda: A guide to ground level population control.

My knowledge of propaganda as a science is limited. But that which I do see I see almost everywhere. I see it from politicians: Often now considered spin rather than propaganda. I see it from media: Sound bite their pundits and hold them as gospel truth. But worst of all I see it from their puppets, us: When we espouse somebody's platform, often with malcontent and tones of relief as if our messiah had come.

It's this third one that kills me the most. It's pathetic. I see it a lot in Britain. People think themselves the suppressed when the facts say nothing of the sort. It's a foul tactic and it makes me shudder. And don't think I get away from my own judgement. I chastise myself for such behaviour. And you should too. You have an opinion. You are welcome to it. Don't give it unless you're willing to discuss it with people not only who agree with you but people who disagree with you.

This is all preamble of course. Britain is never as bad as the British think. With the rise and expansion of the internet though I do hear a lot of Americans carrying on about their poor opinions and how nobody listens and how the media is geared against them. On both sides. It's incredulous that a people when given the right to express themselves freely as part of their founding constitution can think they are suppressed. They are often ignored, but that could be because all of the loud ones are gas bags such as myself.

Perhaps I keep encountering the idiots but every single one of those I do encounter manipulate and ruin my beloved language. And not in the traditional Anglo-American gripes about spelling the word colour. It's an old trick of propaganda to warp and manipulate words for common parlance to use as insults or manipulations.

In the States the Right has a habit of butchering the word Liberal. Confusing it with "Left-leaning", "hippy", and "socialist". That very much sums up American education for me. Anybody who associates Liberals with Socialists are idiots. Socialists advocate state-control of society, property, industry and economics. Liberals advocate state separation from these things. Consider the root word: LIBERTY! But there, Liberalism isn't that, it's some kind of movement for destruction that will steal your babies at night.

If you're a Liberal in America, your opponents consider you 'Unamerican', whatever that means. It's a modern apparition. What happened to the word treason? What happened to the word antithesis? Why is it that people feel the need to make everything 'un' this and 'un' that to any word no matter how incompatible with the format? It's a bloody travesty!

This rant was very much inspired by the straw that broke this camel's back: Protestthemedia.com

There's a whole rant about America being taken over by socialists. That Liberal protest was heard but theirs was not by the media. Really? Well what was all that last Eight years of George Bush? Was that not your vote? You won! What the hell are you complaining about? What could you possibly need from the media that the Government you voted for can't give you?

It's always the tortured winners that whine the most. Even bad losers shut the fuck up at some point. And this is what it boils down to. If they don't make you feel like they aren't in danger you won't rally to the status quo come what may. Propaganda forces you. Either to sit still or stand up. It compells you. It takes away from you your first true right in modern times. To choose as your conscience judges the time to stand and speak and the time to sit down and enjoy what's being said. Don't listen to anything or anybody who wants you to immediately without thought do the following:

1. Sit still and be quiet
2. Stand up and be counted

You do so at your leisure. You even choose to take on what I'm saying right now at your own leisure. All you need are pure facts. If you have those you can pass judgement on a situation. Propaganda wants to force you to make a knee-jerk decision on everything, especially how your government should work and who's to blame for whatever's a mess. These are not the things you are required to make decisions on immediately and nor should you. People who try to manipulate you into this are deplorable and need to be faced down.

Now don't get me wrong, you can make your own decision and disagree with me totally. I'm just asking you to think your decision through about what you think. That way when we discuss it we can actually discuss rather than you sling mud at me and I tell you you're an asshat who trolls the internet. I have picked on the right today because it's the Right that have wound me up today. So some Far right bag of cocks will find this and comment calling me a fucking hippy-liberal. I believe in liberal economics, I can't fucking stand hippies. And you will have missed the point.

I'm angry and it's 2am. I have to be up in five hours or so to work. So just to get out my system: anybody who just read all that just to hate me hates democracy and the right to free expression. You don't like it? Go live in fucking China with the rest of the oligarchs.