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>Except that shift isn’t spontaneous. Someone has to propose it, someone has to promote it, someone has to popularize it, etc. The mechanism is different thoug
by pytester 7y ago
>Except that shift isn’t spontaneous. Someone has to propose it, someone has to promote it, someone has to popularize it, etc.
The mechanism is different though. We didn't just wake up one day and start hearing multiple coherent media voices that vegetarianism is the way forward. We did have precisely that for the Iraq war.
- mc32 7y agoIt’s just slower. But there is an interest and there is a promoter, people selling books, talking on air, in movies, talked about by teachers, elevated by kids’s shows, etc. It’s more diffuse and immersive, thus, it’s even more effective because people rarely notice it. It has parallels to refined state propaganda. Iraq war-like talk basically is the poorman’s version of ideal propaganda.
- pytester 7y agoIt's not just slower and there is no "promoter" that is filtering down news in the same way with talking points dictated to media. There is a wide variety of views being spread in a far more grass roots fashion. "Propaganda" isn't just an attempt to convince somebody of something. Writing a book advancing a viewpoint isn't automatically propaganda.