Posted by
Oyarsu on Friday, March 20, 2009 5:03:15 PM
According to Alan Bloom's book, "The Closing of the American Mind", americans have moved way from an objective assessment of the facts to ascribing all facts as merely subjective. In other words, If the antidote against propaganda is an educated society than the best way to create fertile ground for propaganda is to uneducate a society. Here in the U.S. we have taught that the "big questions" are "subject" to interpretation. Don't talk about politics and religion they say because you'll neveer agree. Not withstanding that some things are indeed subject to interpretation, like vanilla vs chocolate, many things are not, and if the time were taken to logically ascertain truth from error, than a great deal of things that we are told that are "subject" to interpretation simply aren't What has happened is that since most believe truth is relative, the only thing that matters in an argument is the persuasiveness of the arguer, not whether reality meshes with their claims. And if someone believes that truth is relative than propaganda is just as equally valid as educated decisions. The democratic party has based its existence on propaganda trumping truth.