10 Commandments of Wartime Propaganda

[Masato]

As summarized by Anne Morelli from a book by Arthur Ponsonby in 1928 entitled:
Falsehood in War-time, Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsehood_in_War-Time

The book lists and refutes pieces of propaganda used by the Allied Forces (Russia, France, Britain and the United States) against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria).

looks like an interesting read - As true today as it ever was:


1. We do not want war.

2. The opposite party alone is guilty of war.

3. The enemy is the face of the devil.

4. We defend a noble cause, not our own interest.

5. The enemy systematically commits cruelties; our mishaps are involuntary.

6. The enemy uses forbidden weapons.

7. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous.

8. Artists and intellectuals back our cause.

9. Our cause is sacred.

10. All who doubt our propaganda, are traitors

[IDL]

You can see these principles all the time when military adventures are being justified. Taking the moral high-ground is imperative even when it is so ridiculous. It works though.

Most of these are universal concepts that apply to ideological warfare and political movements as well.

Watch the cultural Marxist propoganda that creates the 'social justice warriors'. They have been given enemies (patriarchy, racists, homophobes), they have been traumatized to an extent that they see this as the biggest evil that needs to be snuffed out, and they are given the moral highground built into their ideology. They become a vanguard for the establishment. The 'useful idiots' that get sent out to to wage war and witch hunt without use of reason. The establishment can just point them in a direction, invoke the pavlovian triggers 'Racist over there!' and they will attack on queue without really thinking.