MIND FAMINE
By Charles Kocian
On July 22, 2022, Russia & Ukraine sign a grain export deal with UN and Turkey after three days earlier the EU warned that Russian actions in Ukraine were putting the world at risk of famine. Sergei Lavrov foreign minister of Russia said that the Western states should fix the food problems their restrictions have created. This new was barely covered in mainstream media, instead it is focus blaming Russia for the famine will possibly come.
Great famine of 1315 in England and Europe.
But famine is not new. An example of famine in history is the Great Famine of 1315–1317. It was a large-scale disaster just before the Renaissance. It killed 25% of the urban population of Europe and Great Britain. Peter Garnsey’s in its book Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World, show the problems of food chain supply and its relation with propaganda in classical antiquity.
Leaders such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar utilized art and coinage to control their empires as one of the most effective propaganda techniques. They established in people’s minds the quasi-divine status of a leader, empire, or nation and today’s is worst with Internet.
Author Jacques Ellul, one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century, wrote Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes. It is a psychological and sociological study that shows how propaganda mold people minds and destroys democracy.
The film Wag The Dog, with Robert de Niro and Dustin Hoffman, shows how propaganda can fabricate facts when presidents are in problems giving the public something bigger to think about. “Change the story, change the lead”. In the film they manufacture a fake war against Albania. Why Albania? Because it sounds sinister and no one knows anything about it.
And propaganda is related with russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. He made one of the great scientific discoveries of modern era: the conditioned reflexes.
Pavlov’s famous experiment consisted in ringing a bell while feding a dog. After many repetitions the dog established a Conditioned Response of salivating to the sound of the bell even when the food was removed. The manipulated dog salivated only with the bell.
CONCLUSION
If propaganda injects people ideas they didn’t choose, they better turn off the TV and go for a walk. It’s not possible to eat propaganda and think at the same time.
Now answer to question 9.
QUESTION N° 9
What is conditioned reflex learning?
a) Rational learning
b) Irrational propaganda learning by repetition
The answer is: Irrational propaganda learning by repetition.
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