[Peace] [Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air

[Karen Aram]

Thanks Wayne
 
I knew you would come up with the perfect word, I was however, hoping it would be English.
 
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:23:44 +0800
From: ewj at pigsqq.org
To: karenaram at hotmail.com
CC: sftalk at yahoogroups.com; carl at newsfromneptune.com; occupycu at lists.chambana.net; peace at anti-war.net
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air




  
  


Propaganda comes from a latin term that implies

multiplication of plants by setting out of small shoots that 

develop into larger plants.



It does not necessarily imply that the information is false

but there is an intent to persuade and create opinion.



The Chinese emperors used the term xuan chuan

to indicate the dissemination of "information" that

shaped public opinion.  Xuan is pronounced something like

shyuan and means to declare.  Chuan means to spread.



Inherent in the notion of propagandizing is that opinion is

malleable and subject to various subterfuges, hence a neg connotation.



Friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your "-eers"



(engineers, pioneers, profiteers, volunteers, tears, fears, ...)



On 09/30/13 9:02, Karen Aram wrote:

  
  Wayne

 

True, but as I discussed this evening with Carl and Ron, I was hoping
you would come up with a better word, because "propanda" implies
"lies", the fact that someone was using chemical weapons even if not
the Syrian government, thus "propaganda" is not appropriate in this
case. Ron noted that politicians usually "pander" to their
constituents, thus making it also inappropriate in this case.
"Manipulating" is what is being done, to pull our "knee jerk
bleeding hearts"  but there must be a word that better reflects the
government manipulating its people?

 

  
  Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:05:00 +0800

From: ewj at pigsqq.org

To: karenaram at hotmail.com

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Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air

  

  
Pandering and Propagandizing are 

essential to the health and maintenance of a warfare state

and therein lies the soft spot in its underbelly.

  

  

On 09/30/13 4:44, Karen Aram wrote:
  
    
    An especially good one. I wish to correct something
I
said while on AWARE. I referred to "the US government
continually reporting and showing films of "the killing of children", I
referred to it as "propaganda". I meant to say "pandering". A
malapropism? Maybe, not sure.

 

    > From: carl at newsfromneptune.com

> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:52:39 -0500

> To: peace at anti-war.net; peace-discuss at anti-war.net

> CC: sftalk at yahoogroups.com; occupyCU at lists.chambana.net

> Subject: [Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air

> 

> Members and friends of AWARE usually record AWARE ON THE AIR on
Tuesdays, but there will be no recording this week (October 1).

> 

> The program is cablecast (ch. 6 & 99) and live-streamed
(<urbanapublictelevision.org>) at 10pm Tuesday evenings; this
week's program will be a repeat of last week's, which featured Prof.
Linda Herrera of UIUC, who lived in Cairo and studies education and
social transformation in MENA. 

> 

> Recording of AWARE ON THE AIR will resume at noon on Tuesday 8
October at the UPTV studios (in the Urbana City Council chambers). 

> 

> The program is unrehearsed; members and friends of AWARE are
invited to attend and participate. 

> 

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