Propaganda in the 21st century is more common than in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. This is not an exaggeration, this is unfortunately a fact.

Propaganda is the art of Government, govern=control and ment(e)=mind, it is mind control. So called "Democracies" have really figured out that ruling by words, and lies is much more effective than ruling through force as in compared to an Absolute Monarchy. Thus force is only the backstop, and it's only used when else everything fails .

But to rule, you have to influence if not totally brainwash the minds of your subjects like a cult leader does to his followers, that you have the best intentions, and even though ruling is an ugly business, you have to distort reality and use euphemisms and bogus justification to justify your horrible deeds.

There are many books about it, tons of research, and even released official documents from the Nazis and Soviets that show exactly how it is done. I think people should study Bernays and authors like him to realize the ugly nature of it.

There are 3 institutions that are doing the dirty work:

• The Education System (which is literally called one of the institutions responsible for the "indoctrination of the young" in one of their works)
• Religion
• The Media & Pop Culture

Religion

Now of course religion is just too obvious, and it mostly works on the low IQ population. Look whether there is a God or not, that is a metaphysical philosophical question. But earthly religion is undeniably one of the most ruthless and cruel forms of controlling the masses. Christianity and Islam have all been used to do horrible things, and there were even Buddhist sects (despite their openly pacifist doctrines) that done horrible violence. So religion is not for the benefit of the masses, but rather to benefit those that control the churches. Now religion might teach people some morality, but nothing really that you can't get to using philosophy.

It is literally a cheap solution to force people to be moral, but it always falls apart as religious fanaticism always leads people to do more harm eventually than they did good.

Education

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." - Lenin

It is a literal indoctrination system. Anyone who knows any basic things about psychology knows that repeated memorization of useless data doesn't really stick into people's heads, not to mention that it's useless data anyway. It's not like they teach you any sort of skills in school that you can use in your adult life to make money.

What the Schools "teach" you, or more accurately "program" you, is to be obedient. You have a fake 2nd parent authority the "teacher" that you have to obey like a God. You can't go out to the bathroom without asking for permission first, which sounds like sexual intimidation. I mean it is a very intimate thing to do stuff in the bathroom, especially for girls, but you can't do that without asking for permission. So the teacher even controls your most intimate parts, your genitalia.

It is psychological torture, and then you have the useless data that you must memorize, sounds like the 101 Room torture chamber that Winston Smith has to go through in 1984, you know "2+2= whatever I say it is". And I literally experienced this in school. There was an arrogant narcissist teacher I remember, that sometimes made mistakes, and if you corrected him, he would fail you, he almost literally said that "you should do what I say and don't question me", he didn't said it with these words but something similar. So it doesn't matter if it's true or not, you just have to obey.

But violence is not rare either. I have been beaten by the teachers as a kid for simply just being late for the class as if it were some kind of religious cult worship. There was another boy in my class that started arguing with the same teacher I described above, over some trivial stuff, and then he couldn't handle being "disrespected", went over there grabbed his neck and punched him in the face just for questioning him. If we had known better, this fucker would have went to jail, but of course we were afraid to talk about it so he got away with it. But the cops are in on it too, he would have probably just got like a 1 week paid leave anyway, it's not like the Government touches one of their own.

So it is D E M O R A L I Z A T I O N literally, you go in as a happy child full of energy and curiosity and love for the world, then you are going through a lengthy process of psychological intimidation, brainwashing; then you come out as a depressed obedient slave.

The Media

And after your indoctrination is complete, the propaganda machine (TV) will feed you lies nonstop for the rest of your life. This is of course the news reports that are very biased, Corporate influenced, and basically Government too. Then you have Pop Culture which really just distracts the masses with useless stuff mostly appealing to things like narcissism and greed.

And finally you have the movies and TV shows that are (currently) full of Pro-War and Pro-Police TV shows and movies. Wow how subtle?

I turn on the TV and I always see shows where the cop is always a hero but a little bit confused, like a normal guy you know with normal life issues, but he is sympathetic and has a good spirit. But then in reality I see news like these and wonder are we living in the same reality? Are we schitzophrenic? Or is the TV a complete propaganda machine designed to create a false reality for us and in the real real world things are much much more uglier.

Combining it

So there you have it 3 tools to control the masses and it works. People are distracted, living in a fake world, getting fake propagandized information and obeying authority, no matter how corrupt or evil it is.

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Sources:

• https://pixabay.com
• https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/vladimirle153238.html

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