G's Trivialities

savagemike:

thenoobyorker:

Noam Chomsky discusses the slogan “Support Our Troops”

the point of public relations slogans like “Support Our Troops” is that they don’t mean anything […] that’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about.
- Interview on WBAI, January 1992

Fuck this guy is smart.