I agree propaganda is used to brainwash the viewers to side with the salesmen that use it. Although some propaganda is used to help send a message and people who are less fortunate. Others are used to haggle you out of money or make you feel obligated to buy or do something. The technique of propaganda is just convincing your views with straight up lies and cheap parlor tricks.The techniques can be repulsive but effective. Some target a certain group and others target you the reader. Although propaganda is use often used that it is kinda over looked. Propaganda ranges from logos to free t shits and anything in between.
Advertisers use a wide variety of techniques to get to the consumers. Name calling is one and is when they use negative names to there competitors. Glittering generalities is when they hype up an item to make it seem better then it is. Transfer is when the consumer recognizes the symbol or logo and trusts it. Testimonial is like when someone endorses something. Plain folks is resembling the average, normal, and everyday consumers. Card staking is when the evidence is distorted. Bandwagon is saying "Everyone's doing it. Why don't you."All of these seem cruel and unusual but are effective and widely used.
I like that in your blog you are straight forward and say exactly how you feel about propaganda. I agree with how you said that they seem "cruel and unusual but are effective and widely used" because most people don't think that it really does effect them. Propaganda isn't only brainwashing it's also really annoying. It is literally all over the place and sometimes we don't even realize it.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the types of propaganda are brutal and very rude towards the other competitors in their types of business sales. They definitely point out people and make them feel like they aren't doing what everyone else is doing, therefore making their product or service sound more appealing. It stinks that the business world is starting to turn into a who can call each worse names, rather then just trying to sell products.