Re:What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?
by darkpuma on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:38AM
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"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"
Classic propaganda mantra. The term may have negative connotations to some people today, but if you're being technical the term is neutral. There is propaganda for bad things, and propaganda for good things. Consider that during WWII, both sides were producing unambiguous propaganda:
The last is obviously where the negative connotations for propaganda come from, but they certainly didn't invent it and the people who opposed them were using it too. Propaganda is just a tool, and like most tools, it's amoral. Neither moral nor immoral. What matters is what you use it for. A hammer is amoral, you could use it to build an orphanage or to hit an orphan.
Classic propaganda mantra. The term may have negative connotations to some people today, but if you're being technical the term is neutral. There is propaganda for bad things, and propaganda for good things. Consider that during WWII, both sides were producing unambiguous propaganda:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_during_Wor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_propaganda_during_Worl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany
The last is obviously where the negative connotations for propaganda come from, but they certainly didn't invent it and the people who opposed them were using it too. Propaganda is just a tool, and like most tools, it's amoral. Neither moral nor immoral. What matters is what you use it for. A hammer is amoral, you could use it to build an orphanage or to hit an orphan.