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Join the Joesph Goebbles campaign against corporate progaganda

Mau Mau
Posted Sep 27, 2006 10:41 AM
Mau_Mau
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Post #: 40
Joseph Goebbels TM is an art project in the form of a media campaign dealing with the nature of media and mass communication at the beginning of the 21st century. The basic premise is that former Nazi minister of propaganda, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, is the ideological father of contemporary mass communication.

The main visual motif of this campaign is a portrait of Joseph Goebbels composed of media and communication company logos.

Sixty years after Goebbels, we find ourselves in a highly developed infosphere-- the internet, twenty-four hour news, direct broadcasting, countless non-stop radio, TV and cable stations, mobile communications, etc.-- which constantly barrages us (its intended recipients) with messages. There are ads for products, political programs or activist's ideas, weather forecasts, information about terrorist actions or fashion trends. The overwhelming power of the media sometimes gets under our skin, but we nevertheless remain gluttonous recipients of the messages. Truth becomes completely irrelevant. We can freely say there is no truth. In the place of truth, we consume ideas from a huge marketplace of messages and narratives that we believe in without any immediate experience or judgment as to their truthfulness. As Goebbels might say today, "If you repeat the message frequently enough it becomes the truth".

From the above, we can derive the following Joseph Goebbels? principles:

1. There is no truth.
2. All information is irrelevant.
3. History and media messages are mere narratives.
4. Truth is what you choose to believe.



I've made the poster with the following logos: ABC, Disney, Republican party, FOX, CBN and The Heritage Foundation.

The artist has agreed to the use of the artwork in protest to big-media/corporate propaganda. Contact me for more information and the graphic file. Join the campaign

Edited by Mau Mau on Sep 27, 2006 10:51 AM

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