Learning about media literacy and propaganda

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Learning about media literacy and propaganda

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Every country, especially big countries like China, Russia and the United States of America, use a means of keeping cultural norms. I think it's best for children to get an education in school about the propaganda and the motivations of countries and States so that children may more freely bring in critical spiritual influence to the world and help us shape a world that is safer for them and for all life.

Because America is considered a free country that must be maintained by its citizens, it would be appropriate if the learning about propaganda were accompanied by the understanding that educators and students should take a "detached" approach to the propaganda of their own country and that of other countries.

Yet, it should be understood and maintained, that propaganda is a science. We know this because organizations like the Tavistock institute not only declare their intentions to study the influence of vast and diverse populations in a targeted locality but likely actually do so. They also seem to have been involved in some experiments to use these studies for brainwashing (or in polite society "market influence" of "human terrain") in the manipulations and deceptions broadcast in alleged terrorist events at the start of of the millennium.

Students should learn about the Anglo tendency to create Empires and States led by White Supremacist beliefs instilled by mantra that borrows scientific language to describe the inflexible reality of White Supremacy. Students should learn about the parallel but slightly different version led by Russian propaganda efforts. Students should learn about censorship and punishments in China which come from anti-religious and Communist language.

I would predict, although I haven't studied this adequately, that studies of this nature will bring us to an understand that smaller but still influential countries (such as Indonesia or Singapore) remain strict about their punishments (such as very harsh imprisonment and death for drug crimes) for complex reasons, but many of these reasons stem from their desire for independence from Empire's influence. It could be that "our culture" (that aspect which is touched by if not controlled by imperial culture) is so inundated with propaganda about our own magnanimity that "our culture's" influence is not felt or understand from the perspective of someone being oppressed by that influence. The voice of oppression may say that the small country needs to "be more like America" and yet the invitation to do so is not just the sharing of power but the destruction of the target culture's inherent power. This may be done with propaganda describing that smaller culture's crimes against humanity in a distorted way, especially implying the innocence of "our culture". It may be that those crimes are part of a "necessary evil" to preserve some sovereignty, dignity, independence or otherwise cope with their own trauma, corruption and internal abuses.

So the form of colonization Russia, China or the United States of America might describe as "helping" seems insidious because many in "our culture" that are involved cannot talk about it in these terms that I am framing now. They would shy away from and feel belittled by the understanding that Empire might not be the mostly benevolent aspect of our culture and society.

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