{"id":3541,"date":"2019-05-12T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2019-05-12T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:08:22","slug":"on-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/12\/on-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"On Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reading age of propaganda has been an eye-opener, thanks to Akshat Sir for the recommendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the 15 action item I picked from the book as mentioned by the author to avoid falling into propaganda by marketers, politicians and other non-profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Know the ways of persuasion and realize that you may be the victim of propaganda.<\/li><li>Monitor your emotions.<\/li><li>Explore the motivation and credibility of the source of the communication.<\/li><li>Think rationally about any proposal or issues.<\/li><li>Attempt to understand the full range of options before making a decision.<\/li><li>Don\u2019t base your evaluation on what someone says, but what person actually does.<\/li><li>If everyone is \u201cdoing it\u201d or you hear the same piece of \u201cnews\u201d repeatedly, ask \u201cwhy?\u201d<\/li><li>Apply inversion technology on accessing the sides of the decision.<\/li><li>Teach your children about propaganda.<\/li><li>Avoid being dependent on a single source of information aka WhatsApp <\/li><li>Think of news as the news and try to separate it in your own mind from<\/li><li>entertainment.<\/li><li>Increase your involvement on important issues, just don\u2019t be a keyboard worrier.<\/li><li>Write companies asking for proof of advertised claims.<\/li><li>Support and extend efforts to squelch deceptive advertisement.<\/li><li>Stay away from brands and politicians peddling religion for their own profit.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading age of propaganda has been an eye-opener, thanks to Akshat Sir for the recommendation. These are the 15 action item I picked from the book as mentioned by the author to avoid falling into propaganda by marketers, politicians and other non-profits. Know the ways of persuasion and realize that you may be the victim &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/12\/on-propaganda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Propaganda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}