Category: Propaganda and Mythology

  • unreal truths

    One of the tactics of propagandists, you know… people and organizations bent on twisting your mind and opinion to their will, is to dehumanize the alternate opinion to diminish contrary viewpoints. This happens on all sides, but I will tell you about one specific example that is dividing our province even today. A few years…

  • original ideas

    The internet is one giant game of broken telephone. I remember growing up in the 1980s. Every night the news was on the television in our house. There wasn’t a set channel or a preferred broadcaster, at least not that I can recall, but rather at dinner time each night and later at ten in…

  • phone scam

    Do you answer the phone? Do your remember the last time you answered the phone without checking the caller ID? Used to be, and I might just be old enough to remember those days, you picked up the phone without a second thought simply because it rang. Maybe it was a friend or family member.…