How has propaganda impacted you and the organization you work for? I'm referring to messages designed to influence your opinions, emotions and actions. Has it worked for or against you? Some people say that propaganda serves a useful purpose today; others remind us that leaders like Lenin mastered it … Hitler benefited from it… Stalin killed through it … and Enron’s Lay and Skilling were destroyed by it.
Propaganda mixes a healthy dose of truth with one or two subtle lies - crafted to sneak in a hidden message to get people to do things they lilely would not otherwise do. The human brain grows brain cells for believing what it sees as beneficial or true -- which is how deception spreads across whole communities.
Propaganda tends to benefit its sponsor, while appearing to benefit people it targets. Can you see its impact in business... politics... military ...media ... and medical groups today? Luckily ... alternatives to propaganda are alive and well... and these are increasingly evident lately.
I was interested to read at Zaxpop spot … to find Propoganda watch …“The nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism, media "of, by and for the people." Our programs include PR Watch, a quarterly investigative journal; six books by CMD staff; Spin of the Day; the Weekly Spin listserv; and, Congresspedia and SourceWatch, part of our wiki-based investigative journalism collaborative to which anyone, including you, can contribute.”
Check out Propaganda Watch and rewire your brain for its opposite. Do you agree that the opposite of propaganda is participatory democracy and that it is a quality that distinguishes most successful workplaces today. What do you think?
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