I love women and I especially love strong women. My mother was a strong woman who sacrificed to put her kids through school with a less than helpful husband. My partner is a strong woman who has to put up with un-re-tell-able horrors at the office and somehow manages to forgive me despite my being an occasional “cochon”.
Now here is where Mom and sweetheart need to stop reading.
People who fly the flag of Rosie the Riveter need to take a reality check with the upmost rapidity. Rosie was a propaganda piece just like Uncle Sam, Lord Kitchener Che Guevara and all the other “mindfucks” created in the early 20th Century. It was telling men and women to do what was, at the end of the day, un-natural but useful for politicians and profiteers. Communist propaganda convinced hard working Russian and Ukranian people that laziness was rewarded and that the middleclass was the enemy. UK and US farm boys were taught that killing “the other” was necessary and US farm girls were taught that building weapons of war was “empowering”.
Rosie wasn’t riveting another woman, nor was she riveting a dildo or a podium, Rosie was riveting a weapon so that the real leaders and fighters would be free to do what they do best, lead and fight. Rosie was strong all right, but Rosie’s man was risking life and limb for his country not just clocking in 9 to 5 for a blue plate dinner. While Rosie riveted and Johnnie died, Masopher was getting rich and powerful. There is no empowerment in dying. There is no empowerment in working in a factory. Empowerment is getting people to do what you want them to do and making them feel like they are on top of the world for doing it.
It all culminates with what Masopher sees as a redneck from the wilderness of America believing that swinging on Rosie the riveters balls will somehow make her vice-president. Propoganda piece or no Rosie stands for hard working Americans pitching in when times were tough, not some Spicegirl concert memento. Rosie ended a day dirty and sweaty hair filled with metal filings, she didn’t spend thousands of contributor dollars on hair and makeup in 2 weeks. If Rosie was Allah, I would have to invoke a jihad on those who profiteer off her image and blaspheme against hard working strong women everywhere.
I dont love Obama but I have to agree with him that a pig in makeup, even 22K of makeup is still a pig.
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When Masopher heard sky news suggest that red cross invade a soveriegn nation in order to distribute rice and supplies he thought it a rather ignorant bit of journalism wisely ignored by the redcross representative at the time. But as many bad ideas posited by the pinko media, it has gained momentum from a dim witted murmur to a ignorant shout. Innocuous has been and never will be politicians all of a sudden have a voice because they now have the cameras and microphones pushed in their face and some puppet anchorperson asking them to propogate a dangerous undemocratic and totalitarian concept.
Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded by knee jerk reactions to percieved military threat. Now somehow the media would try to rationalize invading a country for humanitarian purposes. One month ago many people in Myanmar were dying of starvation disease an oppressive government and international neglect. This week a few thousand more will die due to starvation disease and an oppressive government. Next month many people in Myanmar will die of starvation disease an oppressive government and international neglect. The only difference this month is that Burma is this months hype. Tibetians must be jealous.
No matter how it is spread, propaganda comes in four basic varieties, said Arthur Siegel, social science professor at York University in Toronto, whose 1996 book Radio Canada International examines World War II and Cold War propaganda.
“The first level is the Big Lie, adapted by Hitler and Stalin. The state-controlled Egyptian press has been spreading a Big Lie, saying the World Trade Center was attacked by Israel to embarrass Arabs,” said Siegel.
“The second layer says, ‘It doesn’t have to be the truth, so long as it’s plausible.’
“The third strategy is to tell the truth but withhold the other side’s point of view.
“The fourth and most productive is to tell the truth, the good and the bad, the losses and the gains.
“Governments in Western society take the last three steps. They avoid the Big Lie, which nobody here will swallow,” Siegel said.
— Beth Gillin, U.S. intensifies the war of words, The Philadelphia Inequirer, October 21, 2001
With this in Masopher’s mind we watch events ongoing in the Middle East, Africa, South America and the Far East. Propaganda has grown up a lot and evolved over time. In the more experienced countries propaganda is selective truth telling and distractions, parroting press releases, word association and deliberate ignorance. In other places it’s just saying what the people want you to say or think or outright falsehoods. Here in Masophers mind we watch numbers, cross reference sources on both sides of the real events and not the interpretation of events. Cynicism is not allowed to overtake Masopher’s mind. Propoganda in its most benign is a tool of winning support of getting people to see your point of view the point of view that ensures that co-operation and progress happens in a particular direction. When Obama says that he was “the only” voice against the Iraq war, when Hamas plunges Palestine into darkness and claims that Israel is harassing is oil supplies, and Israel in turn complains about the regular rocket attacks. When the western powers fail to acknowledge the immense pressure both factions face as they try to integrate millennia old enemies on a single piece of land; when two black tribes go to war and start using refined but ignoble words like genocide; when the British Government begins “losing” millions of citizens information; or attacks foreign governments in its media for harassing their spies. When scandals of blonde women with names reminiscent of European cities or countries attract more media focus than the actual scandals of the European cities and countries.
It is all propaganda; it’s not a bad thing, it marketing, spin, and impression management, telling a story in a world where people look for right in matters of two wrongs.
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