A story about levers moving the earth

Jacinto 2022-03-20 09:01:47

Wag the Dog (Peachy Storm / Swing Dog / As a Hero / Pug) is an interesting movie I have seen recently

. 11 days before the election, the president who wants to run for re-election encountered a sex scandal. In order to keep his approval rate, he survived 11 days. The president's behind-the-scenes personnel began to do their best to divert their attention. The first idea was: the B3 bomber is taking off, and we will "go to war" with Albania! The president's team flew to Hollywood, looking for a producer...

why would a dog wag its tail, because the dog is smarter than the tail, and if the tail is smarter than the dog, the tail would wag the dog (tail would wag the dog). And the movie really tells the story of a tail wagging a dog, a story of "give me a lever and I will hold up the whole earth".

Why is public opinion and propaganda so important? Because we live in a world of words, images, and video media "medium", just like sitting on a boat floating on the surface of calm sea water. The undercurrents and Trent currents beneath the surface, these realities are beyond the reach of most people.

When I read Mark Twain's "Running for Governor" before, I felt that the U.S. imperialists were really politically dark and the truth could not be clarified. Now it seems that in politics, it is always difficult to clarify the truth. Some things become more and more dark. There is a lot of Zen saying that it is not Zen. What do you do when you see waves on the sea? It doesn't matter if there is no wind or waves or there is wind, get a bigger wave to crush it.

In a world of words, there is always a danger of truth being distorted, either by accident or deliberately. The scenes of the propaganda offensive in the movie, in addition to laughing and shouting frequently, compared with the situation in our real world, although it is slightly exaggerated, but it is not less overshadowed, as familiar as seeing an old friend.

So, aren't the media that claim to always seek the truth not credible? Of course not. We have the Washington Post's coverage of the Watergate scandal, and the New York Times' exposure of the Pentagon Papers; but don't forget the temptation, and we can also learn about fake news from those famous news agencies.

In the age of information abundance, or the only way to try to get closer to the truth is to compare and verify from multiple sources, and to have the ability to think independently and a skeptical attitude. I won't mention the big aspects, but take small examples, such as the origin of sina, most of the posts like "If you are a Chinese, you should like it", and the attitude towards them should be the same.

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Extended Reading

Wag the Dog quotes

  • Winifred Ames: Why Albania?

    Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Why not?

    Winifred Ames: What have they done to us?

    Conrad 'Connie' Brean: What have they done FOR us? What do you know about them?

    Winifred Ames: Nothing.

    Conrad 'Connie' Brean: See? They keep to themselves. Shifty. Untrustable.

  • [Commissioned to write a propaganda song about war with Albania]

    Johnny Dean: Albania's hard to rhyme.