Is Propaganda like the HIV Virus that Causes AIDS?

-It latches onto whatever host it can, and injects it's RNA to infect the host to make it produce the same information and reproducing more of the viruses (propaganda). Eventually the healthy cell starts releasing the infection to other cells and they multiple. As an educated person I have the mental vaccine to ward off all propaganda through the filter of science, evidence, common sense, and rational thinking and relation. How can he cure the people that have been infected by false information, deception, and political dogma?This is an interesting analogy. Propaganda DOES propagate in a similar function to viruses.



It's not an original Idea though. A variant of this was proposed by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Take a look at the Wikipedia listing for Meme at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme



What is distinctive about your observation is that unlike Dawkin's observations for spontaneous generation and the elimination via natural selection of ineffective memes, propaganda represents tailored memes specifically designed to attack and kill antithetical ideas; where the success thereof is more based on effectiveness of the propaganda鈥檚 emotional impact than on the rationality or qualifiability of the misrepresented idea.



In essence, propaganda represents the eugenics of memetics.



This is a fascinating idea. With a little bit of research, you could probably put together a very workable doctoral thesis on this subject.the downgrading of American Credit is being proposed because of the unsustainable spending, not our failure to set a new debt ceiling.

Reality will impose an end, with unimaginable pain, if we will not admit that you cannot continue to borrow. Two plus two equals four.

We cannot continue down this road, and Boehner should be saying it, daily.

Instead, we have both the Demagogue and the sheepish and a out of control government .
This is exactly how most liberals are created - from a propaganda virus.