Psywar - The real battlefield is your mind (1/8)

Documentary about how propaganda is being used to manipulate your mind.

Sources for this film:

-Beder, Sharon -- Consumerism: an Historical Perspective

-Chomsky, Noam -- What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream

-Darwinia -- WWI Propaganda

-Ewen, Stuart -- Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture

-Lazere, Donald -- American media and mass culture

-Lutins, Allen -- An Eclectic list of Events in US Labor History

-Millies, Stephen -- The Ludlow Massacre and the Birth of Company Unions

-Parenti, Michael -- Super-Patriotism

-Simpson, Christopher -- The Science of Coercion

-Smith, Sharon -- Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States

-Snow, Nancy -- Propagnda, Inc., Selling America's Culture to the World

-Stauber, John and Rampton, Sheldon -- Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq ; Toxic Sludge is Good For You

-Tye, Larry -- The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of PR

Film created by: http://www.metanoia-films.org/index.php

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[TheBalancedAmerican]

The doom and gloom music was particularly convincing. (<--sarcasm)

Guys, propaganda is as old as civilization, it has both good and bad intentions. Most of it is marketing and morale. Not everything is a evil diabolical conspiracy. The information here is real, but the perspective is narrow-minded.

[freedomfractal]

We are all waking up! Good stuff!

[JagjeetMann]

@TheBalancedAmerican I absolutely agree

[Holographicillusion]

Great documentary !

[mattsouza]

It is the search for truth. Truth is not subjective.

[TheBalancedAmerican]

@UpperYarraAquaponics I'm not defending propaganda that is based on bad intentions. But not all propaganda is bad for society. Today, information flows freely and we are free to make up our own minds.

How do you limit propaganda without limiting free speech? While some people are sheep, many of us are not mindlessly helpless to the expression of one-sided opinions.=/

[UpperYarraAquaponics]

These people here in the comments defending propaganda are absolutely astonishing. You dont like being able to make up your own mind? Most propaganda has NOTHING to do with truth and facts. FFS

[UpperYarraAquaponics]

@TheBalancedAmerican ROFL. Yeah - information and truth is not so worthwhile. Neither is being allowed to make your own mind up based on all evidence. Wow.

[TheBalancedAmerican]

@thinkahol Although I understand the perspective of media companies, I am very much against SOPA. I did my wiki-duty and contacted my two senators. Media companies need to provide better availability at more reasonable costs.

I am also against unlawful detention, it certainly isn't the first time in our history it has happened.

That all being said, I still think that Psywar is a piece of propaganda complaining about propaganda, its ironic to a laughable degree. ;)

[thinkahol]

@TheBalancedAmerican This is what happens: "Hitler reacts to SOPA."

It's a question of power and democracy. The naked corporate power grabs above and below are shocking.

Three myths about the detention bill

BY GLENN GREENWALD

[TheBalancedAmerican]

@thinkahol Very interesting lecture, thanks for sharing. I have a few questions for Prof. Jhally though. How do you limit marketing without limiting free speech and free will? Don't we want all the information to be presented and then allow people to make up their own minds? People are not forced to accept propaganda. Prof. Jhally reduces us to mindless robots. He is only partially right.

I do think he presents some very good information that more people should be aware of. =)

[thinkahol]

@TheBalancedAmerican Please see: Advertising & the Perfect Storm - Sut Jhally