Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda …
Disinformation and confusion generated at ever higher levels. And that is the description of the condition more than 20 years ago.
Please note that I have put the original German text to the end of this review. Just if you might be interested.
An even better understanding and overview of the overall situation can be seen in combination with his second work "Manufacturing Consent."Long after its first publication, the work has lost none of its topicality. Each society returns to already reached poi
Please note that I have put the original German text to the end of this review. Just if you might be interested.
An even better understanding and overview of the overall situation can be seen in combination with his second work "Manufacturing Consent."Long after its first publication, the work has lost none of its topicality. Each society returns to already reached points in eternal cycles, where writings like these serve as a memorial not to forget critical thinking. Chomsky provides a brief overview of Woodrow Wilson's Creel Commission, Public Relation, the Iraq War, Walter Lippman's spectator democracy and the general state of the media landscape.
Due to the lack of investigation and research on the subject, it is impossible to gauge the extent of propaganda in times of digitization. Neither universities nor NGOs are able to deal with the whole extent of the problem, because unfortunately they are often too deeply involved in the dissonant connections and contradictions. Respectively dependent on these or so blind that they do not see the overall picture as experts for just individual aspects.
It is almost impossible to explain to people after decades of consumption that they have been manipulated. They often have a significant influence on elections and economic and political power because of their prosperity. It would be a sacrilege, heresy and blasphemy only to suggest, that their thought patterns could have been wrong all her life. That their scriptures and commandments, in the form of newspapers, magazines and news programs, are lies and deceit. Even young people who have just been hooked on already associate the ideology that has been instilled with themselves and make them a part of their ego, their identity, their personality. Then they immediately grasp any gentle criticism of it as if it was insulting and attacking them as human beings. An ingeniously diabolical concept of programming people to pervert their trust and their good faith in such a way.
The reporting itself is full of empty phrases and emotions, focused only on the characters and the simplest level of action, never describing deeper or higher levels. Always staying at the level of the human aspect and one-dimensional viewing. A life of responsible and mature media consumption does not extend the spectrum of thoughts of consumers, but restricts it and steers it in the desired paths. Those newsflashes are self-potentiating feedback loops that only reinforce the fundamental mentality.
Once conditioned, it is reinforced with each consumption. To read the newspaper, to consume the daily newscast, to integrate one's social network in the study of these subjects. Out of this arises the opinion that has been inoculated, which is reinforced with every letter and every word. And never is it objective, scientifically clean reporting, but black rhetoric. No informational value, but the selection of the facts according to which of it serves the representation of the opinion that should be strengthened.
When they consume media, people are entirely passive. Democratically unemancipated, subliminal messages are incorporated which, at a deeper level, bring about transformations. Thus, the supposedly only daily and focused reporting about an event has the long-term benefit, that specific correlation are always seen in a just one particular context.People become unable to understand complex connections. They unlearn to selectively seek objective data, compare and form their own opinion. If they even know channels in which unfiltered messages are not branded. They only react more and no longer act independently. Like conditioned, vegetative reflexes of the reptilian brainstem which had never had higher brain functions.
Desinformation und Verwirrung, erzeugt auf immer hherem Niveau. Und das ist die Zustandsbeschreibung von vor ber 20 Jahren.
Ein noch besseres Verstndnis sowie berblick ber die Gesamtsituation erschliet sich in Kombination mit seinem zweiten Werk "Manufacturing Consent".Lange nach seiner Erstverffentlichung hat das Werk noch nichts von seiner Aktualitt eingebt. Jede Gesellschaft kommt in ewigen Kreislufen wieder an bereits erreichte Punkte, an denen Schriften wie diese als Mahnmal dienen, kritisches Denken nicht zu vergessen. Chomsky liefert einen kurzen berblick ber Woodrow Wilsonss Creel Commission, Public Relation, den Irakkrieg, Walter Lippmans specatator democracy und dem generellen Zustand der Medienlandschaft.
Es ist aufgrund der mangelnden Recherche und Forschung zu dem Thema unmglich, das Ausma der Propaganda in Zeiten von Digitalisierung nur im Ansatz zu ermessen. Weder Universitten noch NGOs knnen sich mit dem ganzen Ausma der Problematik befassen, weil sie selbst leider hufig zu tief in die dissonanten Zusammenhnge und Widersprche verstrickt sind. Beziehungsweise von diesen abhngig oder so betriebsblind, dass sie als Experten fr einzelne Aspekte das Gesamtbild nicht sehen.
Es ist beinahe unmglich, Menschen nach Jahrzehnten des Konsums erklren zu wollen, dass sie manipuliert wurden. Sie haben auf Wahlen groen Einfluss und wegen ihres Wohlstands auch konomische und politische Macht. Es wre ein Sakrileg, Hresie und Gotteslsterung nur anzudeuten, ihre Denkmuster wren ihr ganzes Leben lang falsch gewesen. Ihre heiligen Schriften und Gebote, in Form von Zeitungen, Magazinen und Nachrichtensendungen sind Lug und Trug. Wenn selbst junge, gerade erst frisch angefixte Menschen bereits die ihnen eingetrufelte Ideologie mit sich selbst assoziieren und zu einem Teil ihres Egos, ihrer Identitt, ihrer Persnlichkeit machen. Dann fassen sie jede sanfte Kritik daran unmittelbar als Beleidigung und Angriff auf sie als Mensch auf. Ein genial diabolisches Konzept, die Menschen so zu programmieren, ihr Vertrauen und ihr Gutglauben derartig zu pervertieren.
Die Berichterstattung selbst ist voll von leeren Phrasen und Emotionen, nur auf die Charaktere und simpelste Handlungsebene fokussiert, nie tiefere oder hhere Ebenen beschreibend. Immer auf der Stufe des menschlichen Aspektes und eindimensionaler Betrachtung bleibend. Ein Leben mndigen Medienkonsums erweitert das Spektrum der Konsumenten nicht, sondern schrnkt es ein und lenkt es in die gewnschten Bahnen.Es sind sich selbst potenzierende Rckkopplungsschleifen, die nur die Grundmentalitt verstrken.
Ist die Konditionierung erfolgt, wird sie mit jedem Konsum verstrkt. Die Zeitung zu lesen, die Nachrichtensendung tglich zu konsumieren, das eigene soziale Netz in die Beschftigung mit diesen Thematiken zu integrieren.Daraus erwchst die Meinung, die eingeimpft wurde, die mit jedem Buchstaben und jedem Wort verstrkt wird. Und nie ist es objektive, wissenschaftlich saubere Berichterstattung, sondern schwarze Rhetorik. Kein Informationswert, sondern Selektion der Fakten danach, welche am ehesten der Reprsentation der zu bestrkenden Meinung dienen.
Wenn sie Medien konsumieren, sind Menschen gnzlich passiv. Demokratisch unemanzipiert werden unterbewusste Botschaften mit eingebaut, die als tiefere Ebene Transformationen bewirken. So hat die vermeintlich nur tagesaktuelle und auf ein Ereignis fokussierte Berichterstattung den Langzeitnutzen, gewisse Zusammenhnge immer in einem bestimmten Kontext darzustellen.Die Menschen werden unfhig zum Verstehen komplexer Zusammenhnge. Sie verlernen selbst selektiv objektive Daten zu suchen, zu vergleichen und eine eigene Meinung zu bilden. Sofern sie berhaupt Kanle kennen, in denen ungefilterte Nachrichten nicht gebrandmarkt werden. Sie reagieren nur mehr und agieren nicht mehr selbststndig. Wie konditionierte, vegetative Reflexe des Reptilienstammhirns als htte es nie hhere Hirnfunktionen gegeben.
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