A political leader will use anything to control, deceive, and lie to the population. They have found that the best way to do so is to use mass propaganda and brainwashing the public. This should never be done anywhere due to how destructive it can be to a population. Places like North Korea will very likely never be fixed because of how effective and destructive propaganda is. I agree with Chris Hedges and his argument. Even though people could argue that it is better, but the population will be under control and won’t know that what they are in is not normal, but this isn't any way for a human to live.
Political leaders are usually intelligent people and know what needs to be done in order to make the population to believe whatever they say. Often times they have someone behind the scenes telling them what to do and how to do it so that nothing gets out of place. Once the population has eaten up the propaganda the leader does not need to be sincere or honest like Hedges stated. This is when it becomes slightly easier as the leader doesn't have the burden of constantly worrying about what they say. In order to make the population more easily controlled …show more content…
An example is North Korea, all the people there love him and look at him like a god. “those who are best at deception succeed.” says Hedges. In order to lie to the population you should be skilled at deception like Hedges stated. Doing this takes a fair amount of time, but once the deception is at its peak the population is easily controlled and will do anything the leader says. They become like slaves. Looking into a country like this is extremely shocking as our system is so much different, but if you grew up there you would notice no problem and would usually accept it. Older people in those countries never talk about how it was before because the government will take them and put them in labor
Political leaders are usually intelligent people and know what needs to be done in order to make the population to believe whatever they say. Often times they have someone behind the scenes telling them what to do and how to do it so that nothing gets out of place. Once the population has eaten up the propaganda the leader does not need to be sincere or honest like Hedges stated. This is when it becomes slightly easier as the leader doesn't have the burden of constantly worrying about what they say. In order to make the population more easily controlled …show more content…
An example is North Korea, all the people there love him and look at him like a god. “those who are best at deception succeed.” says Hedges. In order to lie to the population you should be skilled at deception like Hedges stated. Doing this takes a fair amount of time, but once the deception is at its peak the population is easily controlled and will do anything the leader says. They become like slaves. Looking into a country like this is extremely shocking as our system is so much different, but if you grew up there you would notice no problem and would usually accept it. Older people in those countries never talk about how it was before because the government will take them and put them in labor