Recycled Propaganda, or El Salvador Is Spanish for Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline R Smetak (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 343-366 |
| Publication date | 1991-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-022-03-03 |
| OpenAlex | W2066451729 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service while it is violating all his laws. John Adams Propaganda, as Jacques Ellus defined it, is a totalizing system, a way of manipulating consent and of getting people to act so that they are convinced that the decision to act was, on some level, their own. In order to work, propaganda must follow familiar patterns because unfamiliarity will cause people to stop and think and, perhaps, not act in the desired ways. Thus, successful campaigns tend to be re-used, to be imposed on new situations whether they fit or not. But such is the force of habit, that these ill-fitting campaigns will work, at least for a time. In response to World War II, the U.S. government stumbled on what seemed a magic formula—total immersion of the entire population in a war against a clearly defined and clearly evil enemy. When the government engaged in new wars, it continued in the same pattern but with steadily diminishing returns. The purpose of this essay is to examine those strategies, as well as the strategies used to counter them, and to examine why they did not work so well the next time
Adversary · Comprehension · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · MAGIC (telescope · Political science · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · Soul · History · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |