The Great Awakening

I taught advertising at the highest levels of Chinese education on the mainland of China for a decade. They called it propaganda, and in the West, we call it advertising. There is only a nickel's worth of difference between advertising and propaganda, and some might say none at all.

Mikki Willis did a splendid job with documentary by capturing the essentials of massive propaganda, regardless of what the issue might have been, or country that was involved. It is all the same material. Some of it is just done better than others, or on a larger scale than others.

So, what are a few solid solutions to combat both minor and major propaganda? One possible answer might come from a place we generally associate as a world leader of propaganda (in addition to the US), and that would be China, in the form of Confucius. How ironic that the leading proponent of MODERATION in all things comes from a country that seems to lack the skill to master it.

But China is not alone in mastering this skill; the US, outside of the Forward Party, (a very minor political movement within the US) seems to be stuck in a constant Left to Right and Right to Left movement politically over the course of the last 300 years or so.

We shift from Conservative movements to Liberal movements every ten years or so. It might be time for us to shift to MODERATE movements.

To keep the family first, to keep our individual freedoms, and to enjoy a free life with many choices for our children, we need to establish a more MODERATE view of others, and of ourselves. Mr. Willis has made this abundantly clear in his work. This will take an earnest effort on our part, to keep what is best in America in order to preserve it for our children.