Propaganda

Propaganda. The power of propaganda is that people don't realize it when under its spell. We seem today to have all kinds of it being politically promoted as truth in our places of 'learning' all the way from day care to the doctoral programs in university. How can we be sure we are not twisted by such 'truth' and under the enchantment of euphemisms? The socialist regimes were (and are) very successful at engineering the ethics and thought of the masses. Might one way to break the spell be to compare it to what past generations had thought? What the ancients have thought? What your great Uncle Percy had held in his strict Presbyterianism or your great grandmother believed in her Polish Catholicism? Yes, our ancestors weren't infallible. But shouldn't the voices of the dead be reckoned in our own minds? And shouldn't the antidote of faith be applied to the virus of fashion lest our consciences be formed to the insanity of the propandized present?