Propaganda

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. – Benjamin Franklin

The Purpose of Government Propaganda

• Conceal the pain of reality
• Destroy critical thinking skills and replace individual thinking with collectivist thinking
• Destroy your confidence in your own reasoning abilities
• Discredit and slander political dissidents
• Condition audience to simultaneously believe contradictory ideas. Orwell calls this “doublethink”.
• Create cognitive dissonance in subject matters that they don’t want you learning about. This causes a mental block to further investigation.
• Expand and perpetuate the power and influence of civil rulers at your expense.
• Euphemize theft of more of your money and property by a corrupted government
• All government deception and propaganda relies on fallacies.
• Definition: Fallacy
  • A false notion
  • A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference
  • Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness
  • The quality of being deceptive
• You must think critically and question everything government says or publishes in order to avoid government deception