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Jungleboy wrote:Hello PK!
hello!
The thing about the national curriculum is that you only have to learn how to pass an exam in what the government wants you to learn, not believe it as gospel. And you don't just stop learning once you reach the limits of the national curriculum (unless you're not interested in learning I suppose, in which case bollocks to you). I suppose what I'm getting at is that the boundaries to how much you can learn aren't set by the government or by any other shady organisation. There's obviously secrets that the government (and its closer commercial allies) keep close to their collective chests, but in terms of politics, philosophy and the like we're still free to learn whatever we want to.
Similarly we're not bombarded with government propaganda every second of the day - we're free to seek out whatever news sources we want. Obviously propaganda is a very real part of modern life - but it's not the same as subliminal messaging, and if you want to avoid it you can. I have to completely disagree with the assertion that the BBC is government propaganda - they might have lost their teeth a bit recently following that whole David Kelly fiasco, but they're far from being a propaganda network. Very fucking far. The criticism of the government is hardly veiled on BBC news.
And while it might be difficult to avoid TV because it's 'everywhere', it's not actually impossible. You could quite feasibly go through your entire life without ever watching TV for more than 30 seconds. And it's not like we're in a North Korean situation where you've got state radios in every home that can't be switched off.
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When you walk into tesco this messaging is triggered by symbols to control our spending habits.
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Do you think propeganda stopped just because the second world war is over? Tony Blair used Propeganda to make public opinion sway towards an attack on Iraq, even though he was lying. The attack on Iraq was not in public interest, so why did the attack happen?
Cheaper petrol is quite clearly in the public interest, it's just that none of us like to approve the means to get it.
Look at the back of a dollar bill.
I don't know about you, but I reckon if I wanted to keep my society secret I probably wouldn't advertise it on bits of paper that literally everyone in the country is going to own.
