Propaganda
(Social)
What is it?
Propaganda is a method that ensures the government that the citizens reading the paper only know what the government wants them to know. Sometimes there would be political cartoons that make fun an idea by making something larger than it appears in real life. This is done so that the audience to the propaganda side with the government side to ensure that no one questions the government's plans and ideas for the country. Government officials want to control the information that the population knows to be able to keep their minds on a low level of a large scale problem. The less they know the better. Other forms of propaganda were in written slogans that took a topic that the populations was already upset about and made the situation escalate to ten times the hatred by saying something bad about the topic. Also the government took a concerning topic to the citizens and wrote an entirely false article about the subject just so the people could agree that there was an issue or that something was wrong. Propaganda was the government's way of controlling the minds of the population.
Why is it important?
Propaganda is important because it shaped the way people think. If the citizens had a negative feeling about a topic and the government issued a piece of propaganda on the negative issue then the citizens would be outraged just like the government wanted them to think. This was a useful tactic that the government resorted to when they needed the support of the population to make decisions for the country and have the population back them up on it. The poor people didn't know that the whole plot was a scheme and that ended up to be bad for the society. The importance of propaganda was so that the government could limit the knowledge of foreign affairs to the public.
Is it a progress?
This is not a progress in history. When propaganda is used to hide the truth to the country then something is seriously wrong. The propaganda took topics the people felt negatively on and made them seem ten times worse than they really were. People in the country just sided with the government because they thought that what they were seeing and reading was the truth. It wasn't and propaganda has tricked thousands in history. If the government did not use propaganda then maybe some negative events in history might not have happened. Maybe one of the citizens could of came up with a better solution to the problem instead of the negative one that the government thought up. Or maybe if the government didn't publish pieces of propaganda that covered up a topic that was shameful to themselves then they might of actually tried to resolve the problem and fix it without causing disturbances.
Leading to...
Propaganda helps lead to the 1920's because propaganda was when the government tried to hide all of the bad issues occurring overseas and with other international powers. In the 1920's there were issues that some of the public would consider as "bad" but these topics were not able to be covered up by the government because they were happening in the everyday lives of the population. There were girls wearing "short" skirts and cutting their hair short and traditional people saw this as bad because it was different. But really it was just a change from the traditional style to the new modern kind of style. The government could have told the people what was going on during WWI and maybe there could of been a change from the traditional government tactics to a new modern view on solving the problem. This is how propaganda led to the 1920's. The population had less government control and more control of their own lives.
Propaganda is a method that ensures the government that the citizens reading the paper only know what the government wants them to know. Sometimes there would be political cartoons that make fun an idea by making something larger than it appears in real life. This is done so that the audience to the propaganda side with the government side to ensure that no one questions the government's plans and ideas for the country. Government officials want to control the information that the population knows to be able to keep their minds on a low level of a large scale problem. The less they know the better. Other forms of propaganda were in written slogans that took a topic that the populations was already upset about and made the situation escalate to ten times the hatred by saying something bad about the topic. Also the government took a concerning topic to the citizens and wrote an entirely false article about the subject just so the people could agree that there was an issue or that something was wrong. Propaganda was the government's way of controlling the minds of the population.
Why is it important?
Propaganda is important because it shaped the way people think. If the citizens had a negative feeling about a topic and the government issued a piece of propaganda on the negative issue then the citizens would be outraged just like the government wanted them to think. This was a useful tactic that the government resorted to when they needed the support of the population to make decisions for the country and have the population back them up on it. The poor people didn't know that the whole plot was a scheme and that ended up to be bad for the society. The importance of propaganda was so that the government could limit the knowledge of foreign affairs to the public.
Is it a progress?
This is not a progress in history. When propaganda is used to hide the truth to the country then something is seriously wrong. The propaganda took topics the people felt negatively on and made them seem ten times worse than they really were. People in the country just sided with the government because they thought that what they were seeing and reading was the truth. It wasn't and propaganda has tricked thousands in history. If the government did not use propaganda then maybe some negative events in history might not have happened. Maybe one of the citizens could of came up with a better solution to the problem instead of the negative one that the government thought up. Or maybe if the government didn't publish pieces of propaganda that covered up a topic that was shameful to themselves then they might of actually tried to resolve the problem and fix it without causing disturbances.
Leading to...
Propaganda helps lead to the 1920's because propaganda was when the government tried to hide all of the bad issues occurring overseas and with other international powers. In the 1920's there were issues that some of the public would consider as "bad" but these topics were not able to be covered up by the government because they were happening in the everyday lives of the population. There were girls wearing "short" skirts and cutting their hair short and traditional people saw this as bad because it was different. But really it was just a change from the traditional style to the new modern kind of style. The government could have told the people what was going on during WWI and maybe there could of been a change from the traditional government tactics to a new modern view on solving the problem. This is how propaganda led to the 1920's. The population had less government control and more control of their own lives.