Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Propaganda and Spin

And while I am on about it, there are essentially two reasons why our Governments and Oppositions and their leaders' do their damndest to demonise those Australian's who are on welfare.

Firstly, they are pandering to the RWA followers - as discussed here and here. Believe it or not this behaviour actually wins them votes! You will need to read the book to understand how and why.

And secondly, they know that a large subset of our population don't understand the issues because they don't read, they don't analyse and they can't comprehend. Mind you, not understanding doesn't mean that they don't have an opinion - even if it is one that is appropriated from the "talk back" radio hosts. Remember the Dunning-Kruger effect?

And they are this way because of a generation of dumbing down by various governments, advertising campaigns, media moguls and other charlatans - who so disrespect our people that they feed them BS in order to manipulate their minds and their wallets and their votes.

In another place and time this was called *propaganda*. These days it is just called *spin*.

That is why "The Conversation" is so important - here we have a new media enterprise actually producing information based on *facts and truth* - instead of the "Lets just make it up" pap that dominates our mainstream media. Of course the MSM will ignore "The Conversation" for as long as they can - hoping it will just go away.

And it will probably take a decade or more before it will make a real difference and we will probably end up with a lot of shitty, greedy and self interested policy between now and then.

PS: Some related *facts* here.

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