Sunday, January 31, 2010

Stop Asking Questions!

The media is known for it's ability to spread knowledge quickly and efficiently to the public. As we all know it has its major flaws for multiple reasons. The general public is well aware that news broadcasting can be extremely bias, and is always careful as to what information they will put out to the people. Therefore, we must be very careful about what we take as truth and fiction.

This image displays a personification of the statue of liberty where she's telling her citizens to "stop asking questions!" The poster is propanda because it makes an attempt to scare Americans from searching for the truth. It is absolutely absurd that we call ourselves the "United States of America," when we are too afraid to let the truth be known to the public in fear that the people will not accept reasoning behind military tactics or governing policies.

Our government system, in which we the people have the power to vote, is solely based on the conception of physiognomy. J.C. Lavater describes in full detail about humans and their inevitable fate to judge all things by face value. A smiling face, clean suit and tie, or a sparkle in the eye, could win the votes of many. However, Latvater explains that no one is at fault, for it is wired into our brains to make first impressions no matter how undesirable it may seem. So then why are we so surprised to see that our officials are hiding valuable truths from us?

In my opinion, it is a work of scadalous genius. Pretend to promote the importance of education, yet make it too expensive for the average joe to afford. It seems as though our government wants its citizens to be brain dead so they can continue to go about their affairs without the hassle of moral questioning.

2 comments:

  1. good image minhi!
    "The general public is well aware that news broadcasting can be extremely bias, and is always careful as to what information they will put out to the people."
    I do not know if you saw it or not, but the Daily Show caught Fox News playing falsified information.. (sort of) back in november. What happened was Sean Hannity held an anti-health care rally of some sort in D.C. on a cloudy day, but they showed footage of an ealier rally from summer that had more people attend it to give the illusion more people showed up. They said some high number of people showed up when it was significantly smaller than what some New York news paper stated had shown up. The Daily Show caught it..
    http://insidetv.aol.com/2009/11/12/sean-hannity-apologizes-to-jon-stewart/?icid=main

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  2. I agree, that this poster gives an ultimatum of of with or against. The statement that Lavater uses is physiognomy of "individuals, class, race and kinds." If you are with America "us" or "U.S." then you are instantly one of our kind, if not then you are a terrorist- a different race or class of people.

    Terrorists are instantly "credulous" and this is OUR- Americas- "sudden perception of truth."

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