123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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> With all due respect, I do not think it's a pseudo explanation.
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> Or rather, I think Americans vastly underestimate the toxicity and effectiveness of the continual propaganda to which you are subject. Most people don't even recognize it as propaganda.
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> Does it explaine everything? Of course not. But it's huge.
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> Joanna
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Propaganda does not exist in a vacuum. In fact, it only works with those who already accept its premises -- i.e., who have 'learened' those premises through their won everyday practice within a given set of social realtions. Put otherwise, propaganda cannot itself create the terrainon which that propaganda makes sense.
France is engaged in a large-scale effor to deprot all Roma to Rumania. No European nation (nor Japan) grants citizenship to the chldren of migrant labor. There are efforts to eliminate that clause from our constitution but they are so far trivial.
A focus on propaganda is, I woudl venture, _always_ onscurantist, preventing analysis of the grounds upon which that propaganda depends for its effects.
Carrol