Propaganda

Man easily falls prey to propaganda

The English Oxford Dictionary describes the word propaganda as follows

1. Any association, systematic scheme, or concerted movement for the propagation of a particular doctrine or practice.

2. The systematic propagation of information or ideas by an interested party, esp. in a tendentious way in order to encourage or instill a particular attitude or response. Also, the ideas, doctrines, etc., disseminated thus; the vehicle of such propagation.

3. propaganda campaign, propaganda chief, propaganda film, propaganda fund, propaganda leaflet, propaganda meeting, propaganda play, propaganda poster, propaganda raid, propaganda technique, propaganda war, propaganda warfare, propaganda work; propaganda machine :- an organization responsible for the dissemination of propaganda.

Propaganda attempts to envelop human being by all possible means whether in terms of a man’s feelings, his ideas, his needs, his consciousness and unconsciousness, his private or his public life. Propaganda supplies him with a comprehensive system, for explaining the world, goading and enticing him to action. Through the myth that it generates, propaganda imposes a whole range of instinctive knowledge, capable of only one interpretation, unique and prejudiced, preventing any disagreement. This myth becomes so powerful that it assaults every area of consciousness, leaving no sense or motivation in one piece. It arouses in the individual a feeling of distinctiveness, engineering a predisposed outlook.

Here is one for the road: Before I was born, I was a dino, a mermaid, a plant and fruit. After I die I will go on to become the great white shark, a Swiss and then an eagle before returning to be an Indian once more!


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