My OperaRe. post the other day..
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:42:59 AM
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003507.html
Right. In Soviet Russia and some of the east-bloc states - they had to use force to perpetuate the propaganda. Shut up, or get in trouble. Enjoy what's going on, or else. In Saddam's Iraq, there would be economical ruin if you didn't roll with the Party. In Orwell's 1984, a meticulous effort was put in to shape a fictional enemy and conspire to censor history and news-reporting.
In the US, there's no need for that. There's no need to even deny things that flatly contradict existing policy.
We really have the greatest system ever invented. In a standard authoritarian country, that kind of straight-forward demolition of the most basic rationale for the government's foreign policy wouldn't be published. But here it can be, because it doesn't matter at all.
Now I'm going to take a nap.
Right. In Soviet Russia and some of the east-bloc states - they had to use force to perpetuate the propaganda. Shut up, or get in trouble. Enjoy what's going on, or else. In Saddam's Iraq, there would be economical ruin if you didn't roll with the Party. In Orwell's 1984, a meticulous effort was put in to shape a fictional enemy and conspire to censor history and news-reporting.
In the US, there's no need for that. There's no need to even deny things that flatly contradict existing policy.
