There was a time when propaganda was a real art form. People used to really work at it and you had to have a sharp eye to detect it. Its just not what it used to be.

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What does something like that even mean?? Seriously. What does it mean? Its just nonsense. I’m right and you’re wrong? Okay. So?

And these ….

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It seems that any one with a paint shop pro program thinks that can slap a few copy/pastes on a paper and write some phrase on it and that’s propaganda. Used to people had to spend hours and hours doing a good propaganda piece. They were true pieces are art.

What has happened to the leftists of the world? Have they gotten fat and lazy or are they too busy gaming to take the time to produce quality propaganda anymore? What’s with THAT?

They have to use images from previous propaganda pieces. Take the cover of Time that used the image of the Marines at Iwo Jima to make a statement about the environment. Instead of coming up with something unique and new, they take a classic image and run it through a photo program and manipulate it to make a statement about whatever cause they are trying to promote at any given moment. Its just pathetic.

I know what the problem is actually. The problem is there’s not enough angst in the artistic left. You have to have angst to create great art. The great poetry that made the great music of the 1960s came out of a deep sense of angst on the part of the a generation embroiled in a war and a major social revolution. Hemingway and the lost generation came from the social upheaval of the Great War. Then in social revolutions and the uncertainty and changes brought about by World War II had the same effect. Great works of art inspired by a sense of change, sacrifice, uncertainty … angst.

This generation doesn’t have that edge. Instead they have iPods, trust funds and wii. There’s a war, but they aren’t involved in it. Its ‘over there’ and its really not affecting life here. There’s not a draft, so they don’t have to worry about it at all. It doesn’t stop them from their school activities or weekend parties. Its someone else’s problem.

That’s why the propaganda the left is trying to put out is mostly updated copies of propaganda that was created in times of true angst. The words are just put on newer pictures or newer words are put on the older pictures. The creativity isn’t there, because the angst isn’t there.

Its a sad state of affairs when the idealists and artists of the left can’t create any decent propaganda.