Yet another "conspiracy theory" that turned out to be true.
Good point, I'm going to believe all conspiracy theories from now on.
The Pentagon and CIA have shaped thousands of movies into effective propaganda
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#22Ayn Rand Wrote a Guide for Hollywood on How to Make Pro-Capitalist Movies.
https://gizmodo.com/ayn-rand-wrote-a-guide-for-hollywood-on-...
Link to copy of the book.
http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/screenguideamericans.pd...
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#23Discussed in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29835933
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#25War is probably not possible without propaganda. Wars are strategic, but people generally won't participate in mass killing or property destruction without an (invented or exaggerated) ethical justification. The most significant cause of global insecurity are myths like good, evil, ethicality and fairness between nations, etc. My hope is that tracking resources and making them more abundant and distributing first-par…
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will -- Joseph Goebbels
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#26Similar things have been said about the rise of FSP games. I’ve heard the military basically created FPS games for their combat simulators. They also pushed or gave money to developers to popularize FPS games. FPS=first person shooter.
That doesn't sound true, but they did make one of the best shooters (America's Army) and released it for free as an advertisement basically.
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#27In the early 90's my moms friend group was passing around this VHS where a guy who claimed to be ex military nervously explained that a lot of hollywood production was the government easing secrets it knew and legally had to disclose to the public so it would put them into hollywood movies. Things like spy stuff or aliens. I have no idea how I'd ever find the source or original of that. Would be interesting to see if…
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#28I simply can't take a source like this seriously.
Am I denying that the government has interest in and lobbies for friendly content portrayals? No.
Will I get information about it from charged up ideologue who clearly has a strong slant against the US government/military. No.
It's effectively random blog tier credibility.
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#29Yet another "conspiracy theory" that turned out to be true.
Good point, I'm going to believe all conspiracy theories from now on.
There are three types of people circling around conspiracy theories.
1) Literate people who care about history and know that industry does what's best for profit at all costs.
2) People who don't read much looking for a hobby.
3) Liberals hoping to pass off their empty skepticism as allegiance to the mainstream.
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#30I'm curious: for how many people is this news? For those more inquiring you should look into the Smith-Mundt Act, which makes it illegal for the US Government to directly propagandize the American people; it was effectively repealed in 2012.
Is there a difference between propaganda and false information? This is a practical question. If they say “propaganda” but in practice simply plant false information, is that still in scope?