Memes by Themes #9: Censorship
I thought you guys might enjoy a topical Memes by Themes interlude before I publish Round 2 of The Substack Censorship Wars.
In my Defender interview about Canary in a COVID World, I wrote:
“Totalitarianism, genocide, war—these atrocities are only possible thanks to the twin forces of propaganda and censorship: propaganda to promulgate the menticidal narrative and censorship to silence the truth-tellers exposing the lies upon which that narrative is based.”
With that in mind, my Memes by Themes on Propaganda and Psychological Manipulation make enlightening accompaniments to this entry:
Memes by Themes #4: Propaganda
“The modern state, among other things, is an engine of propaganda, alternately manufacturing crises and claiming to be the only instrument that can effectively deal with them. This propaganda, in order to be successful, demands the cooperation of writers, teachers, and artists not as paid propagandists or state-censored time-servers but as ‘free’ intell…
Memes by Themes #5: Psychological Manipulation
Psyops, brainwashing, fear bombardment, coercion, mind control, public opinion engineering, mass hypnosis, pressure to conform—if it’s psychological manipulation, this Memes by Themes has it covered!
I previously included Racket News’s Censorship Industrial Complex graphic in Propaganda, but it belongs here, too:
