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comment by AnSionnachRua
AnSionnachRua  ·  4698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The System
The video seems to me to have no more content than propaganda, and like all propaganda those who agree will have their values reinforced and those who disagree will shake their heads.

It's not that I don't (or do) believe "the system" to be corrupt, but that a video like does not and should not convince me.

I might check out the rest of the series.





alpha0  ·  4698 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I hear you. (I have a few simple filters. Any manipulative use of voice and music immediately sends the offending content to "propaganda" bucket. A deeper filter is to look for conflations.)

This is the propaganda effort: http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-system-full-length-trail... (Where I found it. Where the 'twitch' occurred.)

I watched the first part until a Michael Hallam (http://lancasteresta.org/) is introduced at 24:00. May get motivated to research into the production company that put it out as well.

The trick of agitprop is to conflate real issues with a dogmatic solution. I would wonder at any who does not empathize with the plight of the dispossessed, but sadly that trope has been used to hoist more than one monstrosity on humanity to date.