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Monday, 05 April 2021 17:24

Doing What 300 Spartans Could Not Do

...As in the recent past, we cannot ignore the efforts of the USA to design the cultural, ethnic and sectarian regional balances in the future. Although the "gun boat" diplomacy, which was applied in the past and damaged its own dynamics in the process, was abandoned, it is a known fact that the USA always aims to be at the top of the global geopolitical power pyramid with new paradigms... 

Monday, 05 April 2021 17:22

To the West!..

“...The fact that Syria and Europe had to face the problem of war came up as a separate phenomenon. Because the crisis is at the gates of Europe. Perhaps it is necessary to pile more refugees at the gates of Europe. At least one million if possible, provided that there is more...” 

“... the global consumption culture continues on its way without slowing down by eroding and de-identifying ancient local values. While shopping malls were transformed into Postmodern Temples of Consumption, people fascinated by the creative performances of these fantasy palaces turned from those who went to the shopping just because they needed it into bargained effectively, spending hours and "freely" between commodities without purchasing, people became acquiescent of fixed prices. Consumption, which was based on the concept of “need” in the traditional period, started to be based on the concepts of “desire” and “request” in the late modern or postmodern period ..."

If we go back to the periods when new mass media, multimedia and television were not yet available, the printing and distribution of newspapers were insufficient, and the literacy rates were low, the most effective mass communication tool at that time was undoubtedly the radio. For this reason, radio has got its name in the history of audio communication, politics and propaganda as "radio wars", "golden years of radio" or "interference wars".

The following example given by the American political scientist Richard Fagen explains the effect of mass media on society and politics in a striking way: “If there was an opportunity to establish a network of deceit that could place 2 thousand people at key points in mass media, it would be possible to convince the whole of America and a large part of the world that the President of the USA is dead!”

“...The audience, who distanced itself from the reality of the world on television, gradually begins to perceive the fantasy emanating from the television as a reality. Moreover, these fantasies emanating from television gain their reality in storytelling, and television provides this with its most realistically dramatized narrative. This situation worsens for those who watch television a lot, and by this means, the audience is increasingly imprisoned in the conditions they are in...”

After the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the rhetoric of US President George W. Bush in his speech, "Now, every nation must decide, either you are with us or with terrorists!..." had been on global televisions for days. 

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