Propagnada- Daily Object Writing – aug21 - Paul J Penton

Propagnada- Daily Object Writing – aug21

Aug 21st, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily Writing

Radios and loudspeakers on cars define the latest exploits of the ‘dear leader’. The words are bullets shooting into the hungry bellies of people. They know the hollowness of the words like the hollowness of their stomachs, but some who’ve never had the opportunity to see the world any different believe, wholeheartedly. The U.S. is the great enemy who the dear leader is fighting against as they try to gain soil and taste the dirt of the motherland. Television, if you’re lucky to have one, runs endless grainy repeats of the life of the great leader with over-enthusiastic voice overs. Military parades of missile clad flat bed trucks in army green and the dear leader is perched on a balcony with a printed smile and an overview of ‘the people’ and his dominion.

In 1984 style, the thought police tune into your every conversation, to avoid starving you become a spy, informing on your circle on your friends, on your family. As the weight of propaganda crushes you , you drown in a sea of lies and untruths that start to fill the cracks between brain cells until you’re numb and you start to believe without question – hunger doesn’t help.

Is advertising just a subtle form of propaganda? Persuasion for the rule of the consumable item? Repetition over and over, billboards flashing before us, telling us how the ‘dear product’ can improve out lives, is making our lives better now for just a small cost from our wallets or plastic in the same way the peoples of North Korea each day just spend a little more of their life to continue the travesty of the great leader – Without comparison it all sounds plausible as bird song in the morning, appears to be solid as concrete – unshakable, tastes sweet – knowing the dear leader has it all under control, but a stream of resentment will surely one day gush forth in a broken dam wall of anger and uprising – will it be quelled? Will there be blood on the streets- are the people to weak to struggle?

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