Propaganda
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” –Winston Churchill A comprehension on a satisfactory level of the functions and mechanisms of propaganda makes you a better citizen. I always believed that propaganda should be taught in high-schools. If I was to defy this term […]
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” –Winston Churchill
A comprehension on a satisfactory level of the functions and mechanisms of propaganda makes you a better citizen.
I always believed that propaganda should be taught in high-schools. If I was to defy this term I’d simply say that it’s to disseminate a message to people through different mediums, for a specific aim/ purpose.
Actually there shouldn’t be any negative connotation to this noun. It’s the use of it that can be characterized as positive or negative. Propaganda evolved into a real ‘science’ during the 20th century. The word itself takes us back to the 17th century and the origin of the term, when Pope Gregory XV founded a department charged with the spread of “the Faith”, the famous Congregatio de Propaganda Fide.
In the 20th century two names that perfected the methods and use of propaganda, easily stand out: the great Vladimir Lenin and his most successful “disciple”, Dr. Joseph Goebbels. Yes, they used their talents to create and support totalitarian regimes! And that’s then another reason why we must study Propaganda…. Most techniques and methods still used today were created or re-defined by those two masterminds of politics.
