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How the Dangerous Effects of Propaganda Can Kill You
Are creative people more intuitive and sensitive to what’s happening worldwide? Yes, I love creating, and alarm bells are going off about what’s happening worldwide.
I occasionally look at Reddit feeds, and one person was boasting about the media being dead, and more people read his blog. Oh really? Is your blog unbiased? Did you do in-depth research on the topic you’re spewing about?
If you didn’t, you’re spewing propaganda. Need an example? Many influencers questioned why food labels today list so many more ingredients than labels from years ago.
The influencers concluded that’s because foods from years ago didn’t contain as much crap and promoted this viewpoint. If they had done the research, they would have discovered that it’s because all the ingredients must be listed nowadays. The foods from years ago had scary things in them we didn’t know about because wasn’t required.
has been around forever, which is not a good thing. It’s a form of communication that distorts facts to promote an agenda or point of view. It’s damaging and can be deadly-as in getting innocent people murdered.
It’s easy to recognize propaganda if you know how. But it requires research and some critical thinking, and…