Sunday, August 18, 2013

Page 105 of Gordon R. Dickson's Soldier ask not a critique on Galactic News Service plot in book

Page 105 features a scene where the character an apprentice to the Galactic News Service is gratefull his companion did not make any ignorant suggestions as a person unfamiliar with how reporting is done. Who the fuck does he think he is? is the impulse of the reader to think. Like many in the news this character has bought into the propaganda that no one else has a recorder or methods of communication or cameras. The ideas in most places are for free speech and in a place with advanced technology it is odd that citizens would require a propaganda service to tell them what is going on. anyone living in the place could have beamed the events which happened to be a war to the galaxy at large. The propaganda assumption holds since 19th century when propagandist william randolph hearst and others covered the Indian Wars and right through 20th century. that a type of propaganda priest hood is to tell the masses what is happening .That is not to say the masses cannot communicate ideas of owning means of production but other than that and environmentalism and education rest is propaganda. The assumption that weapons and war are impressive.they can be countered by magnets and computer programs. worth noting is that point is over looked as for centuries thhat strength is not in force of arms but ideology andapplying it to stop projectiles.for example a constitution can be applied via computer program to prevent omething like amotion mine designed to destroy an air craft such as the news carthe galactic press type was travelling in in the war zone.

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