"You read the same words you always did but you shift your perception. What starts as recognition of the form of US official rhetoric, its particular style, expression, cadence, structure, and content — and also observing that certain actions inevitably follow certain statements, which when said in a particular way precede subsequent actions that are made very clear, that do follow — turns into something else that gives a 13 year old a sense of what?, satisfaction?, competence?"
This is an excellent observation. You're touching on something I think is essential to modern propaganda which I have a hard time expressing. A certain connection with its flow, that lets us participate in its power. It's in advertising and the wearing of brand clothes, and consumption of branded goods, but especially, I think, in this vicarious participation in the system's external violence.
"You read the same words you always did but you shift your perception. What starts as recognition of the form of US official rhetoric, its particular style, expression, cadence, structure, and content — and also observing that certain actions inevitably follow certain statements, which when said in a particular way precede subsequent actions that are made very clear, that do follow — turns into something else that gives a 13 year old a sense of what?, satisfaction?, competence?"
This is an excellent observation. You're touching on something I think is essential to modern propaganda which I have a hard time expressing. A certain connection with its flow, that lets us participate in its power. It's in advertising and the wearing of brand clothes, and consumption of branded goods, but especially, I think, in this vicarious participation in the system's external violence.
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