The most effective propaganda does not tell you what to think. It tells you what is worth thinking about.
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The most effective propaganda does not tell you what to think.
It tells you what is worth thinking about.
Americans are not told to support every U.S. military action.
They're encouraged to debate it.
To have opinions.
To argue about troop levels and exit strategies and mission creep.
What they are not asked to think about is the premise.
The premise: that the United States has the right to project military power into any country on earth, to overthrow governments it dislikes, to impose economic conditions through financial institutions it controls, to maintain hundreds of military bases on foreign soil, to reserve the right of first nuclear strike, to conduct drone assassination programs in countries it is not at war with.
These are not debated on cable news.
These are not campaign issues.
These are not in the frame.
They are the frame.
And as long as the frame holds, the debate inside it, hawks versus doves, surge versus withdrawal, multilateral versus unilateral, is a debate about methods.
Not about whether the entire structure of global military dominance should exist.
The system allows you to argue about everything inside the frame.
It simply never asks you to look at the frame.
Vietnam looked at the frame.
Vietnam broke the frame.
That is why they have never fully forgiven us.
posted by Satish Sharma at
02:48
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