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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2022
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I know Roderic Day has been writing a bunch about how he wants to reframe propaganda from brainwashing and this is a good example of why, it removes agency in a way that serves to essentially exonerate people for making deals for blood money made from the lives of foreign peoples.
Moreso he prefers to push the idea of going along with propaganda as a rational choice, conscious or subconscious, wether it be for direct material gain or in a way that helps cope with the reality they live in, if china bad then america less bad, and thats somewhat easier to mentally handle, for example. You could still argue within this framework over how acceptable or unacceptable the choice to take blood money is, but it makes it a real choice that someone is deciding rather than a thing they simply cannot helps as a cog in the machine.
This is his full essay on the subject but I havent read it all yet.
Absolutely. I immediately thought of his essay. These people are not misled fools who are brainwashed by propaganda into hating China or joining the military or whatever. They are imperial subjects who knowingly seek out imperial deals and simply find the terms acceptable.