Correlations between old and modern propaganda
The online English dictionary defines propaganda as: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, and nation.
Examples of old propaganda are easy to find on-line:
Soviet propaganda, Nazi propaganda, American propaganda and so on.
Those examples of propaganda sound today ridiculous to us. They’re naïf and too much direct. If nowadays somebody affirms, for example, that the west civilization is superior to the others, we loudly laugh at him.
That’s why nowadays propaganda evolved itself in a new, more subtle type. The one in the picture is one of the best modern examples. Oddly, people go to cinema and pay to watch this type of propaganda.
A couple of days ago I wrote, concerning “Battle star Galactica”, that Hollywood is a military propaganda machine. “Battle star Galactica” is a really good example of modern propaganda. In this serial fiction we have 12 tribes of people searching for a promised land (Gods wrote about it in the sacred books!) after their diasporas (!), fighting against a strongly religious (!) and ferocious race of machines which do not believe in free will but in fate (like Islam people?). For me it is not possible not to think to a really distorted and propagandistic way to move the never ending Israel-Palestine conflict into the usually neutral science-fiction environment. The good questions are what is the intention of doing this and what will be the result.
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May 30, 2007 at 8:32 am
At least this time you used another image
I’m here to defend Battlestar Galactica because I really do not think that this is a kind of propaganda, at least not the kind of propaganda you are thinking of
I’ll try to read Battlestar in a way similar to your:
- people in Battlestar worship Gods, not a single God.
Maybe we can think that this Gods are Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, movie stars, …
- machines worship God, a single God.
- machines are stronger
Maybe we could read this as a warning just to say:
we are losing our faith.
But I think you are going too far.
June 1, 2007 at 10:09 am
Do you mean I am populist ?
February 9, 2008 at 7:48 pm
great artilce
February 10, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Thanks but what happened to your blog? WordPress says it’s deleted.
April 8, 2008 at 10:08 pm
hello
i’m student in media and communication i would like to know more about this picture i want to do a presentation on propaganda and use this propaganda
thanks to help me
anyway I think you are right for the propaganda everything is not showed
ta
April 9, 2008 at 11:58 am
The picture (without the text below) you can easily find in internet: just google Spiderman.
The text is the speech of Spiderman at the end of the movie. Spiderman is on the top of a high building. In the picture, the whole background is covered by a giant USA flag moved by the wind. And Spiderman says: “With great power comes great responsibility”.
Of course, as Spiderman is a mere USA propaganda movie, the speech is not just of Spiderman: it reflects foreign politics of Bush government.
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