Thread: The Engineering of Consent

It is lying on a large scale to influence other people, and manipulating people into doing things they wouldn't normally want. And no propaganda can not be used for noble purposes. You might start off with good goals in mind, but eventually your good goals will be corrupted. It always results in bad things, and can never be used in a good way.

There is no noble goals involved at all. If you had noble goals, you would just speak the truth and people would listen to you because it is the right thing to do. If your using propaganda to influence people, it is because you know they would never listen to you otherwise. Usually because what you are saying is so horrible or stupid, that people want no part in it.

Originally Posted by Alric

There is no noble goals involved at all. If you had noble goals, you would just speak the truth and people would listen to you because it is the right thing to do. If your using propaganda to influence people, it is because you know they would never listen to you otherwise. Usually because what you are saying is so horrible or stupid, that people want no part in it.

This isn't exactly true. Propaganda is used extensively by the green movement and also by the anti-war movement. What they want to happen is good, but they do it in a stupid way because they don't trust people.