A new form of propaganda has risen in our day. It goes by various names. The one I like best has been dubbed “impression management.” As with all forms of propaganda, impression management is really nothing more than the art of distraction renamed.
In other words, show people something shiny in one hand to distract them from what you are doing with the other hand.
Our nation has been slowly programmed to be susceptible to this type of propaganda. The methodology of this particular programming involves shortening the attention spans of people so that they do not bother to think analytically or linearly from something presented as fact, to the implications of that proposition, or to the logical outcome of any proposition.
This seems to be the favored approach to mind manipulation.
In the past, politicians have used this technique deftly over many decades. One clear example from the past was to drop news late on a Friday afternoon when things are winding down for the week, hoping that the news cycle would miss it or report on it late and obviously after-the-fact, when a simple “what difference does it make now” would suffice to placate people.
Today, with the major media outlets all owned by a handful of corporations, and those corporations long since co-opted into Ameri ...
