Awareness

[matrixmann]

Do information campaigns really fulfill their purpose?
Isn't it more important what people do from day to day - what their mindset is that determines their acting everyday?
And do these campaigns have any influence at all on how people think about a certain matter, about a certain group of people?
Did any campaign, for example, ever change any peoples' thinking towards gays? Or make it clear to them "you know, that's like somebody glued tits on your chest, made you be able to get babies, put you in a woman's dress and told you 'from this day on, you live as Maria for all days'"?
Did anything ever convince anyone "this is a story that can happen next door to me, so I better be no asshole 'cause I still need to live in one and the same apartment building with my neighbors"?

Comments

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

I see schools tell teenagers propaganda all the time and the teenagers mostly believe it: they believe it like 98% of the time and like 98% believe it! The propaganda is told to them by the teachers and administrators. Also, each high school has web based announcements now show on something like television for fifteen minutes a day.

The problem I see though is that if someone tried to make a book of everything adults told children: putting it all together in the same place to be read, it would contradict itself all over the place. Mostly, the propaganda is be happy and don't bother other people. The thing I see wrong with it is that teenagers today are really competing with each other for fewer and fewer good jobs. At some point, they are going to be frustrated that they will have less and less and will be angry or depressed. The solution should have been that they needed to work much harder, but they are being passive far too long. Schools encourage passivity. Teachers and principals should be failing like half of every class because the typical work produced is garbage, but to do that you'd have extremely angry teenagers coming to school everyday and a lot of them would stop coming to school at all. The statistics are better if you give almost all of them good grades.

[matrixmann]

Well, you may know if from your own experience... Do they get inspired in school to become self-thinking individuals? No, they don't. They get inspired at best to become consumer zombies. People that buy each new Apple product (for example).
Maybe they get taught too to be the least burden to their parents and to their teachers - shortly experessed: Be a good boy / girl, obey the commands, follow the leader, don't be uncomfortable.

When they're done with it, meaning when they're grown up - what else should come out of that than something like child soldiers?
Child in the head still, trying to fit in to be no burden to someone, following the orders that been given, too stupid in their heads to create an idea how to fuck the system, how to live differently without ending in self-destruction. - Even the school shooters enqueue in the masses under that aspect, but today it seems not they even exist anymore (10 years ago, you could say they even had some kind of complex idea how society should be built and work in itself).