Especially in these last weeks, we saw a lot of commercials sponsored by different political parties (including the democrats and the republicans), such as on TV, but also on flyers and posters, etc. These commercials try to tell us about the personal history and projects of each candidate if they were president of the US. They sometimes talk about the opponents to the same job, trying to demean their ideas, so they can highlight their own ones. Therefore, they can sometimes feel very loyal in front of their rivals, as being such mean and non integrate to themselves, just to be sure they will ensure that they will have all the cards in hand to at least hope of winning the title. But up to which seriousness can this happen?
For example, the other day, by chance, I fell upon a kids/teenagers channel (nick) which promoted their support for the candidate Obama to the presidency of the US, and we even saw Obama himself telling us that he was supporting the channel too, and was thanking every kid who supported him, with the largest smile and kindness he could ever have. Even if in the first lecture of what happened, you can see explicitly that it was very nice, and divested of all wickedness, you can see implicitly that this short message can also be very “politically incorrect”. In fact, first of all, the channel declaring deliberately their strong support for Obama, and the appearance of Obama himself conforming this idea, could be totally damaging for the people, and especially for the target of the channel, i.e. the children.
As a matter of fact, we briefly know the political orientation of the principal channels, such as NBC and CNN for example. However, do they really show it in words, or implicitly? Which was very shocking with the Nick channel, is that, even if the US TV tries to remain conservative such as its people, they didn’t miss an opportunity to break the impartiality of TV points of view, and especially in front of our dear little blond heads. Therefore, we could ask ourselves if it can be considered as brainwashing. In fact, this kind of propaganda looks very persuasive, and particularly concerning the most innocent people of the world: kids. This age bracket is so young that they don’t know enough about life to be able to consider their own points of view, and be able to separate what is simple cartoon from what is commercial, i.e. which is biased (even if everything is always more or less biased, but whatever… this seems more biased than usually).
Finally, isn’t it bad in general to try to convince someone helpless in ideas and way of thinking that he/she should follow one or another way, because he/she had been told to via the medias?
And, between us, we all know that propaganda is always harmful to people, might it be “good” or “wrong”, and especially the younger you are, the more damaged you will feel, so I would be to let our small Cherubs remaining innocent the longest they can, so they won’t be mingled to all those political tensions, difficult enough to be handled by 10 year old kids. In fact, these have to do much better, such still thinking that Santa Claus and the Little mouse exist, etc.
But, overall, you all know what you have to do : don’t allow yourself to be led astray into the spiral of the politics, because they know exactly how to manipulate you and your offspring, and you do not know how much…
