Mass Media Propaganda and Barack Obama

We live in times where propaganda streams through every one of our mediums of gathering information. The “news” channels are simply propaganda for dictating societal, cultural, and political norms. Our media function as info/tainment, and barraging us with large daily dosages of politically conservative jokes, non-chalant racism, and overtly divisive programming and words that take already existing societal fears, stereotypes and anxieties and manipulate them in ways that magnify our differences and serve to pit everyone in our society against one another instead of directing our anger at the true sources of our problems i.e. government, corporations, and media. 

This blog, for me, is my little way of combating the constant negativity, manipulation, and ideological conditioning that we live through everyday here in Amerika. It is a small, isolated, sporadically updated blog that not that many people see, and yet by posting i feel a sense of empowerment in believing that by putting out these words into the vastness of the Internet, it is giving my friends and whoever else sees this shit, a breath of fresh air and a break from all of the bullshit we breath in the rest of the day. 

We place varying degrees of our trust in that television and media will give us a non-biased portrayal of the world we live in, but even knowing that this is largely not the case, and in fact many of us who know that corporations and the government dictate what we watch, people still widely believe what the people on t.v. think about things from sports, to food, to politricks, and turn the televisions arguments into their own personal doctrines. This is why it is discouraging to see all of the effort to turn Barack Obama into an anti-Amerikan, anit-semetic, anti-white, muslim terrorist. They are comparing to HITLER for gods sake! What the Fuck?! This is the shit that i far too often passively receive as an open receptacle for the garbage thrown into my brain each day that honestly is killing me softly constantly. Barack Obama gave what probably was the best breakdowns of where we are as a society and because we live in a world of propaganda, colonialism, and smear artists, he is trivialized, dumbed down, and his words manipulated in ways that distort what he actually said- instead of bestowing him with praise for telling the truth and having the courage to speak that truth, especially when all we get from our current president is lies and an evil grins.Luckily we got people who fight back.

I just got this email from moveon.org that read,

This week, Barack Obama gave one of the most honest and inspiring speeches on race in American history after weathering days of the media’s relentless, divisive, and racially charged attacks. But have you wondered where these attacks came from and why they dominated the news? Reporters like NBC’s Tim Russert focused on the “Reverend Wright controversy” only after FOX and other right-wing media did. It happens over and over: FOX airs a right-wing smear and the mass media repeat it. Film director Robert Greenwald just released a short video called FOX Attacks Obama: Part 2 which shows how it happens.

I’m posting that along with the “Part 1″ cuz that shit just summarized really quickly how this bullshit is going down.

Part 1

Part 2

Wow. Sometimes i feel helpless and hopeless, i’m glad i find my outlets, in mostly positive ways.

Peace and truth,

G.