Thread: The Engineering of Consent

Originally Posted by cmind

How about the pledge of allegiance? Forcing little kids to swear allegiance to their government. Isn't that a bit worse than McDonalds ads?

Actually, the pledge of allegiance swears allegiance to our country, not our government. If everyone was forced to swear allegiance to their government, then I'd have a serious problem with it.

Originally Posted by MindGames

Actually, the pledge of allegiance swears allegiance to our country, not our government. If everyone was forced to swear allegiance to their government, then I'd have a serious problem with it.

Huh?

I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,

Either way it creates nationalism.

I've always thought that this is propaganda/ a way to indoctrinate children to have nationalist tendencies. What mcDs does is worse on one level because it doesn't cause wars, but on another level it's the same, it's mind control through a constant succession of images. Mcdonalds is fucking everywhere, and there food is total shit. Influencing people's minds like this on a mass scale is fucked up and dystopian, I don't like it one bit.

Granted it isn't brainwashing or real mind control, I'm using the word like a propagandist might to make my point seem more dramatic, but it does have an strong effect on many many people.