Another blog on language (use). A totally different way of communicating is propaganda.
‘Propaganda is as powerful as heroin, it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.’ Gil Courtemance.
Propaganda is a form of communication in which the interested party tries to win supporters for its ideas by playing on public opinion. This is achieved by conciously disseminating one-sided and/or fabricated information. This with the intention of inciting the population to indignation, disgust and hatred. Thus to stir up the passions of people.
You see this regularly in politics and during election time, to bring their points across. It is also used to start a war or during war. In WW2 Joseph Goebbels was the minister of Public Information and Propaganda. Before him, Edward Bernays (a full nephew of Sigmund Freud!) became famous of his knowledge of the innerworkings of propaganda.
Propaganda is not only used during physical war like WW2 was, but it was used in ‘the war on terror’ and it is also used in this ‘war against the virus’. The government has not given neutral information about the presence of a cold virus (as it turns out to be) with an IFR of 0.15, but uses propaganda to keep the fear going around, to promote testing and vaccinating. Propaganda is also: silencing unwelcome noises (censorship!). I assume this is why some people call this period an ‘information-war’. See this for example:
‘The more people get vaccinated, the closer we get to normal life. Vaccination is the most concrete form of solidarity. You contribute to the well-being of everyone’, says Gudrun Briat, spokesperson of the (pay attention!) taskforce vaccinatie (taskforce vaccination).
Who does not want to show solidarity? You are held accountable for your decency. Manipulated into. The question is: what is NOT being said? Well this:
‘In fact, if a vaccin does not work against a particular variant, only that version can continue to spread the virus and that refractory variant may become dominant among the vaccinated people.’
‘Why run the risk of side effects that are unknown for the long run?’
‘Research done at Oxford shows that people can also be virus carriers after they have been vaccinated.’
‘We also do not know whether someone produces antibodies against other corona variants.’
The above statements are from Jona Walk, vaccine-immunologist and from Bert Mulder, doctor/microbiologist, both working in a hospital in my residence.
You could state that psychological influencing of behavior, in other words mindcontrol, is used to get you to agree on vaccination. Below a list which is far from complete:
- We’d rather don’t want to implement the measures, but the virus leaves us no choice.
- Along this line: the virus is solely responsible for this situation. The virus is no human being, but human beings are implementing measures and causing ‘this situation’.
- We do everything we can to fight this virus and we have no other (conflicts of) interests. When you start digging, it turns out that there are A LOT of conflicts of interests.
- Bribery. It is said that we can only go back to normal when everybody is vaccinated. Not everybody wants to be part of a medical experiment (which it is!), so they will probably get the blame, but there won’t be any ‘normal’ left because of bankruptcies fex. The technique used here is: do as we say and you will be rewarded….
- Using celebrities. This is a widely used marketing technique. You might want to ask your self: if this product (or in this case this vaccine) would be that good, would this kind of heavy marketing be necessary?
- Consciously creating scarcity. With this technique groups of people are played against each other. This can be compared with: ‘while stocks last’, ‘temporary offer’… This is a response to a fake exclusivity of, in this case, the vaccine.
- Popularity created. This has to do with creating the illusion that a product or this vaccine is very popular. This is like buying people to come visit a certain show.
- The: ‘If you don’t get vaccinated/no vaccination passport, you won’t go back to normal’, won’t come true if there are enough people who refuse to cooperate.
- And: Anyone who doubts our propaganda is a traitor, a danger. Remember that!
I recognise points in the communication from our government to citizen around this virus situation, do you do too in your country?
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