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Many years ago a friend had a tirade about how schools no longer teach people to recognize propaganda and apply critical reasoning to the arguments being made.
by StillBored 9y ago
Many years ago a friend had a tirade about how schools no longer teach people to recognize propaganda and apply critical reasoning to the arguments being made.
I'm generally not a conspiracy theorist, but it sure seems that having a populace without strong critical thinking skills, and without formal training to recognize propaganda (and marketing) plays into the hands of the elite* by allowing them to maintain and expand their hold on the economy and government.
*noblemen might be more appropriate here than Bourgeoisie, even the 1% term is fairly inaccurate because its more like .01%.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> *noblemen might be more appropriate here than Bourgeoisie Nobleman are the land-bound pre-capitalist elite; other than a handful tolerated for symbolic purposes, those that remain elites have done so by joining the capitalist elite, the bourgeoisie. So, no, bourgeoisie is the more accurate term.
- StillBored 9y agoMy problem with bourgeoisie is that its too broad a term. The "bourgeoisie" is a larger part of the population than the part setting the political agenda in the US. It implies that there are all these individually owned businesses in the cities controlling the political agenda, when the businesses with a voice are really the large corps with lobbyists which are controlled by a few dozen board members frequently sitting on multiple corps boards.