Current Events > How much propaganda does the 'system' shove into shows and games?

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Like someone mentioned how in most media, cops must be portrayed positively. I wonder if writers or executives receive visits from the government just to make sure they are complying.

There's also how in shows like House of Cards or Succession, if there's idealistic reformist politicians that are obvious Bernie knock-offs, some characters MIGHT sympathize with them but they ultimately lose and the system prevails.

There's also the MCU movies where the 'good guys' mostly have these huge government-military industrial complex supporting them (SHIELD, etc.) and the 'bad guys' are poor people with legitimate grievances who are categorized as terrorists and stomped (Captain America: Civil War), or like in the second Spider Man movie, the bad guys are union people who had an issue with how Elon Musk- I mean Tony Stark ran the company and fired them.

Do you think all this is on purpose?

I don't think the powers that be manipulate entertainment. They manipulate education, and some of those biases inevitably bleed into media.

It depends on what you're talking about. The act of having something be positive/negative can be viewed as a form of propaganda, but sometimes it's done as a point. Copaganda is so much of a prevalent complaint because the government actively gives money to movies and whatnot to show them in a positive light, we have actual quotes about how they are using it for propaganda, etc. Inversely the entire concept of "propaganda" is a bit awkward in a modern sense as *all* advertisements nowadays fit the classical terminology as propaganda, yet most people will not view them as such. Similarly alternate ways to be propaganda tend to be viewed as "not real" despite the propaganda being the entire point. For instance, 100% of all Pad Thai is propaganda as the recipe literally only exists because the government wanted to have foreigners have a better view of the country (they even government-owned restaurants across the world, including the US, to do the same... though because they have moved away from that you really can't say that all Thai restaurants are propaganda).

Most people are so flooded with propaganda at this point that the entire concept of what it even is doesn't really quite even have a real definition at this point. This is not helped by the brain-drain going on with the dumbing down of basically all factors of life/over-simplification of complex terms.

If you want to film with the cooperation of the US Navy, you have to agree to their terms. Same with Lockheed Martin, Apple, or NYPD. That's not "The System"; that's paying for realism.

Way too fucking much.

All of it