Why Does Edward Herman's Use Of Propaganda

The America known today and known in the past has manipulated what we believe it to be from what it actually is. Despite what Americans think about them being free, and having a unpersuaded say in what goes on the country, they are actually quite controlled and manipulated into helping a dominant elite, when it does not benefit them and really harms them instead. In the essay “From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak, “ by Edward Herman the reader is shown the truth behind the Western governments manipulation by comparing it to the government of Ingsoc portrayed in Orwell's novel 1984. In the book 1984 it centers on a frightening dystopian society, where the government has full control over everything, even people's minds …show more content…
The fictional government of Ingsoc in 1984 and the real government of America, in both the present day and the past, are extremely similar because of the ideals in the government the share which Herman expertly explained with the use of the use of propaganda to benefit the elite, Amerigood, and Marketspeak.
The first main comparison between the two government is the use of propaganda. Propaganda is used as a tool to manipulate the populus in order to benefit the top upper class, this is true in both the United States government and in the government in the novel 1984. There are multiple ways that propaganda is utilized to control the public, thus profiting the elite. One subtle way of blinding the citizens applied in the book by Orwell, and also the U.S. is the threat of outside forces, and the endless war because of it. In the novel it is the two other governments left in the world they fight against, however in modern America it is the continuous fights with different places in the middle east. Although the main battles followed the terrorist attack on the twin towers on September eleventh, the U.S. had actually been in the middle east a decade earlier, in 1990, where the