By Lee Cary —— Bio and Archives January 28, 2018
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"Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization." (Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes," -- Jacques Ellul, © 1965, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., p. 61)The primary target of liberal anti-Trump propaganda is the "marginal man." Media propagandists keep "in mind that most important man to be reached is the so-called marginal man: that is the man who does not believe what the propagandist says, but who is interested because he does not believe the opposition either; the man who in battle has good reason to lay down his arms." (Ellul, p. 34, n. 8) In the public venue of political ideology,
"...the Undecided--those people whose opinions are vague, who form the great mass of citizens, and who constitute the most fertile public for the propagandist. The Undecided are not the Indifferent--those who say they are apolitical, or without opinion and who constitute no more than 10 percent of the population. The Undecided, far from being outside the group, are participants in the life of the group, but do not know what decision to make on problems that seem urgent to them. They are susceptible to the control of public opinion or attitudes, and the role of propaganda is to bring them under this control, transforming their potential into real effect." -- (Ellul, p. 48)
Jang Jin-Sung, a former counter-intelligence officer and Poet Laureate for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, and the author of "Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime," -- (Rider, Random House, London, © 2014) describes how thoroughly corrupted journalism works.On page one of his accounts of life in North Korea as a state propagandist, and his escape to freedom, he writes:
"Throughout his life, Kim Jong-il stressed, 'I rule through music and literature.' Despite being the Commander-in-Chief of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Chair of the National Defence Commission, he had no military experience. In fact, he began his career as a creative professional, and his preparation for his succession to power began with his work for the Party's Propaganda and Agitation Department (PAD)...[H]e was a dictator by means of physical control, but he was also a dictator in a more subtle and pervasive sense: through his absolute power over the cultural identify of his people. In a mode characteristic of Socialism, where ideology is more important than material goods, he monopolized the media and the arts as a crucial part of his ambit of absolute power. This is why every single writer in North Korea produces works according to a chain of command that begins with the Writers' Union Central Committee of the Party's Propaganda and Agitation Department. Anyone who composes a work that has not been assigned to the writer through this chain of command is by definition guilty of treason."On December 7, 2004, eight months after a narrow escape from North Korea, Jang became a South Korean citizen. The Honorable Senator Flake would benefit from reading Jang's account of what real despotism looks like. The Senator seems not to know.
Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam, and lives in Texas.