The Aussies from CNNN have made their way onto OneGoodMove, an American-based blog that posts highlights from TV shows around the world. The CNNN team often do this thing in the states where they walk around asking people on the street about war and other things dear to the hearts of Americans.
In this clip the question is asked, in terms of the war on terror, who should be the next country to invade?
Predictably they manage to accumulate scads of footage revealing some of the greatest threats to life on this planet, those who blindly follow authority.
What’s kinda interesting, if you read some of the comments on OneGoodMove, is how ready even enlightened Americans are to dismiss such insights into their own culture.
It’s really no surprise that one of the main factors enabling the U.S. to invade other countries is the willingness of its citizens to blithely believe anything their masters tell them. Which in itself is not surprising when you consider the lengths gone to via the Public Relations industry to engineer consent,
to use a phrase coined by Edward Bernays, pioneer of the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion and author of Propaganda in 1928.
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Well that video show just what propaganda can do for the opposite side. How many people were interviewed before they got those idiots? Using “propaganda” they made it seem like America is full of brain washed citizens who dont know a world map. I’m american, most of my friends and family are american, and we can all tell the difference between Iran, North and South Korea and Australia. I’m not defending the US or our actions but the same type of propaganda happens in every country.
Kristen, CNNN is a parody; although I understand your sentiment it’s a bit of a stretch to call it propaganda. However you don’t need to look to comic acts like CNNN to understand how deeply fooled Americans are by their masters. You only need look to polls like those in 2003 that indicated 70% of Americans believed Saddam was involved with 911, or like those in 2004. As far as I know many Americans still believe this. And this sort of thing is just the tip of the iceberg. Similar “public relations” efforts are now been made to create a pretext for invading Iran. No doubt millions of Americans will be sucked in hook, line and sinker, despite the fact that they know they’ve been lied to before.