Western Propaganda from an Asian Perspective

This video is an hour and one-half long, so obviously I do not expect anyone to watch it. I listened to it as I was doing other things today, and enjoyed it.

It’s an “Asian” (read DPKR) view of American propaganda. As with all good propaganda, it is factual for the most part. I think some of the numbers cited are probably wrong, but why quibble about details when the piece is, like all advertising and politics, done only for effect. It spins a nasty view of the US and our consumer culture and zombie-like TV-dazed and ignorant population. (11% of our youth don’t know where the Pacific Ocean is? I hope they don’t live in California.) The voice-over woman, who sounds like Tokyo Rose, knows all of our names and faces, games and attitudes, leaders and charmers. She even know Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Bradgelina, Madonna (somewhat dated on that one), computer games, advertising and other names and faces I’ve never heard of and dammit I’m an American. Who the hell is “Jordan?”

Of course, references to Great Leader are odd – is that part of their culture? Here we say “The One.”

It made my day. If by chance you do view it, you have an advantage in that you know going in that it is propaganda, something you lack when you watch American news and entertainment.

It is apparent from listening to this that Koreans know a whole lot about us, while we know nothing about them (or anyone else, for that matter).

7 thoughts on “Western Propaganda from an Asian Perspective”

    1. More prop. From The Telegraph.

      “Of course, there is nothing wrong with being a foodie – except when you are the leader of a small, impoverished country where almost everybody else is eating grass. Most of the excesses described above took place during the famine of the 1990s, which killed up to two million North Koreans, about 10 per cent of the population. And the statistics about the death toll do not tell the full story. Those who survived – much of the current population – suffer from chronic malnutrition. A study by South Korean anthropologists of North Korean children who had defected to China found that 18-year-old males were 5in shorter than South Koreans their age. Roughly 45 per cent of North Korean children under the age of five are stunted from malnutrition. It is impossible to calculate what percentage of the total food budget for 22 million people is squandered on this one person and his coterie of family and friends. In addition to his edibles, Kim is said to have a wine cellar with 10,000 bottles and, as has long been reported, to be the world’s largest customer of Hennessy’s top cognac.”

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        1. Yeah but still I can’t get my head around the effectiveness of state controlled prop vs “semi-free” articulation of the news that we experience.

          For instance in Cuba, NK, and even Venezuela dissenting voices are stymied it not eliminated all together.

          Or……our we being lied to about that?

          Please help me Mr. Transparent Tomato Guy.

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          1. You are absolutely correct, Swede! The American propaganda system says that our dissenting voices are heard even as they are stymied if not eliminated altogether. In places like Cuba and North Korea, those voices are stymied if not eliminated altogether. Venezuela is a big country on the northeast coast of South America.

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