I have recommended UnSpun to every peer and friend remotely interested in being intellectually informed or reading an interesting book that can carry conversations for hours. I have learned that propaganda flies at us from all directions, it is not limited, and it is not contained.
Spread by political parties, schools, churches, businesses, advertisements and other groups, propaganda will make our decisions for us thus creating the inability to think independently. It is important that we familiarize ourselves with the devices and techniques used by propagandists and ask questions on the way.
Questions to be asked include: Who is the propagandist? What does he want/ what is he influencing? What do those words and symbols mean exactly? What does the propagandist try to make them mean? This list, still evolving and making additions, is what I have begun to ask after reading UnSpun.
Fight back, ask questions!
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