October 22, 2023

Modern day politics is full of ‘lies’ or the ‘incorrect meaning of truth’. People have a very short-term memory. Individuals may have a longer-term memory but not the group of individuals. The advantage of this short-term memory and ‘lies’ or ‘incorrect meaning of truth’ together forms ‘Propaganda’. In Politics, importance of Propaganda is very high. Politicians or groups make the world believe what they want people to believe. This way the whole world divides into three groups, always. One group is against, one is for or supports and third group is neutral. 1) Definition – Propaganda is creating false narrative with the help of people’s short memory and lies or untruthfulness about facts. 2) Behavior – It is difficult to say the groups in Favour of or against have short term or long-term memory. But it is easy to say that of all neutral people many have the long-term memory. If they had short term memory, they would have joined one of the other two groups. Also, neutral people do not fall for propaganda. 3) Importance / reasons/objective behind propaganda – Propaganda is important in politics because it helps create illusion, imagination, ‘maya’ (forcing to believe in such things that barely exists), fake belief, rage, fights, unrest, instability, threat, sympathy, sometimes love, vote banking, support, leadership position and so much more. Building lobby is one of the biggest advantages of creating propaganda. This helps unite and fight on any topic. Now-a-days, except in few countries, there is democracy. At least for namesake, there is democracy. You can only win in democracy, when you have support of masses. You can bring artificial support from different political parties which have got support of masses already. When you want to win heart of masses, propaganda works well. Example, in Pakistan, most of the elections are won on the basis of terror comments. The leader who speaks the most against India, tries to build human rights propaganda in India, especially in Kashmir region, the chance of that leader to win election are high. Another example, In India, the leader who speaks most about welfare of poor people, subsidies on daily consumables including petroleum gas cylinder, free cash for people below poverty, viral communal comments; helped win the election till 2013. In 2014, building narrative of the loot congress government did through corruptions, hawala, money laundering etc. helped them win the elections for 2 consecutive terms.  4) Examples of Propaganda – There are many more examples of nations or individuals using propaganda for their self-interest. They will never care of their own behavior, the consequences of propaganda, environmental & economical losses, losses of lives, losses of wealth etc. Let me know what your opinions and comments in the comment section are. Do like and share the article series on whatsap, FB, X, LinkedIn and everywhere. Thank you for reading our article.