propoganda

Recently we have been studying propoganda, and I will mostly be referencing our course readings. I wonder whether propoganda is avoidable or not. Or whether it should be avoided at all. As we have seen in our reading, it is virtualy impossible to purge our lives of propoganda. It is therefor our responsibility to make informed descisions about the propoganda we endure.

informed descision making is a bit of a complex construct. First we must understand exactly what is being said to us and why it is being said. If we understan that, we can theoreticly find the truth behind somthing.

This however is not an easy task. The reading for this week gave an example of a chinese king who executed his advisor and geve a false stance on the idea of invadeing an adjacent country in doing so. In this scenario it is very difficult to understand what you should do because you don't ae all the information.

A better way to decide who to be pursuaded by is to decide for yourself your opinion on an issue and tehn hear some ones arguement.

however to form an opinon of your own you generaly have to hear several others, and they may all be wrong. Even research text can be published for selfish motives.

if this is true then every thing is propoganda and it may even be possible that we are always trying to pursuade ourselves of things rather than objectively looking at things.

if this is so, any arguement i may have in the future and even this one right now are somewhat irrelevent given that you are predisposed by your own choice to come in the end to a specific answer