Ryland Ficzel
Lori Walker
ACAD 100
24 January 2016
Reading Response for There Is No Terrorist Conspiracy On any given day with a click of the remote control, we are bombarded with globalization, seemingly never ending conflicts of economic warfare and the reintroduced boogyman for adults that is known as terrorism. Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major shares his thoughts in There Is No Terrorist Conspiracy on how to combat terrorism, and states the case that terrorism itself cannot be defeated alone with conventional methods and ideas. A new way must be investigated on how the public analyzes media, and how to separate facts from blatant propaganda. Any student of history will take notice, and hopefully take action herself …show more content…
Like the Nazi’s Joseph Goebbels, those within the U.S. government today understand propaganda intuitively, and it is used on a daily basis to sway public opinions on elections, support war engagement, and to further delude critical thinking skills from those who consume it. "Critics see the greatest failing of the modern corporate mass media as that it daily bombards its audience with facts, figures, and statistics, it rarely attempts to bring coherence or any meeting at all," stated journalist Jim Marrs, author of The Rise of the Fourth Reich (Marrs, 342). In a sense, the media would report the story, but only a fraction of the facts are released to the public. Regarding how consistent the media is, it is not designed to tell the public what to think, but rather subtly persuade them what occupies the back of the corridors of their minds. The public’s thoughts are filled with images of violence and how dangerous the World is. The news then shrewdly desensitizes them to the constant drumbeat of death and destruction. They view these images while continuing their lives, getting up to do their daily chores, paying taxes and are happily contempt with most of it being allocated to bolster a military presence that will vanquish their enemies that would dare to threaten consumerism disguised as the sacred virtues of freedom and democracy (Runciman, 40). When one takes an attentive look at a history book, it becomes even more evident that this is the same kind of tactic that was practiced by Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire some 2,000 years ago. Through the Nazi Regime to the continuous conquest pursuit of the highest echelons within
Lori Walker
ACAD 100
24 January 2016
Reading Response for There Is No Terrorist Conspiracy On any given day with a click of the remote control, we are bombarded with globalization, seemingly never ending conflicts of economic warfare and the reintroduced boogyman for adults that is known as terrorism. Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major shares his thoughts in There Is No Terrorist Conspiracy on how to combat terrorism, and states the case that terrorism itself cannot be defeated alone with conventional methods and ideas. A new way must be investigated on how the public analyzes media, and how to separate facts from blatant propaganda. Any student of history will take notice, and hopefully take action herself …show more content…
Like the Nazi’s Joseph Goebbels, those within the U.S. government today understand propaganda intuitively, and it is used on a daily basis to sway public opinions on elections, support war engagement, and to further delude critical thinking skills from those who consume it. "Critics see the greatest failing of the modern corporate mass media as that it daily bombards its audience with facts, figures, and statistics, it rarely attempts to bring coherence or any meeting at all," stated journalist Jim Marrs, author of The Rise of the Fourth Reich (Marrs, 342). In a sense, the media would report the story, but only a fraction of the facts are released to the public. Regarding how consistent the media is, it is not designed to tell the public what to think, but rather subtly persuade them what occupies the back of the corridors of their minds. The public’s thoughts are filled with images of violence and how dangerous the World is. The news then shrewdly desensitizes them to the constant drumbeat of death and destruction. They view these images while continuing their lives, getting up to do their daily chores, paying taxes and are happily contempt with most of it being allocated to bolster a military presence that will vanquish their enemies that would dare to threaten consumerism disguised as the sacred virtues of freedom and democracy (Runciman, 40). When one takes an attentive look at a history book, it becomes even more evident that this is the same kind of tactic that was practiced by Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire some 2,000 years ago. Through the Nazi Regime to the continuous conquest pursuit of the highest echelons within