08-28-2024, 03:51 PM
(08-28-2024, 03:31 PM)guyfriday Wrote: This is the core of Trotskyism. Create a safe place within the confines of the state and showcase the chaos of not being part of it. In exchange for the peace of being protected by the state you work solely for the benefit of the state as indentured servants to the committee that run the state.
If you chose to live outside of the state's protection, you will be subjected to the chaos created by the state to keep you from replacing them or living a life of peace.
Not to be argumentative, but the truth is that this strategy arose well before Trotsky. It's damn Machiavellian.
It's been used in history more than most people realize. At many more levels, and intensities, and by people of whom most would say "they would never do that." Ironically, almost never serving anything we can identify as "good."
But there is a difference between 'propaganda' which bears intent, and some schmuck wanting to get closer to the fire of the media cycle. Which is no apology, this is just a 'freebie' for the propagandists to use or not at their leisure. It's less about the information than the behavior that accompanies it.
Media "sells" fear. The incentive is evident and measurable. To hide something because it evokes fear is just as much "propaganda," as exposing it for the same reason. It's all in the wheelhouse of the "producer."
Like most problems of a social nature, the issue is how people behave, not so much what they think.
