Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "propaganda"

Take a fancy celebrity,
put them in military uniform,
suddenly everybody is a patriot.
That’s how primitive this world is,
everybody yells about world peace,
while living in militarist gutter.
The best propaganda is one that,
does not feel like propaganda;
Best way to legally recruit terrorists,
is to portray terrorism as valor.
Best way to sustain the revenues of war,
is to showcase war as peace-intervention.
Till you grow up and denounce all militarism,
don’t you dare call yourself a civilized human!
We scientists, doctors, nurses and teachers,
forget self-preservation for life-preservation,
while primitive civilians of a primitive planet,
throw all that away, hypnotized by patriotism.

If A Tree Falls (Sonnet)

If a tree falls in the forest, but
nobody hears it, did it really fall!

If children are bombed to death,
but it’s omitted from the news,
did the children really die!

If people are massacred by law,
but it’s not on Netflix,
is it really a genocide!

If democracy is dismantled piece by piece,
but by government decree,
is it really illegal!

If the world is burnt to cinders,
but the privileged castles stay intact,
is the world really burning!

How to be on the good side of government,
this is a manual for the monkeys –
never question, never reason, never doubt,
be a good little patriot, blind to atrocity.

Foster no conviction on human rights,
memorize the moral parameters set by the state,
and remember, it’s not about morality or ethics,
it’s about licking the boots of office idiots.

Use music and movies as propaganda machine,
for the government’s favorite god ‘n religion,
never make art about correcting social ill,
but about maintaining fanatical superstition.

However, well aware of all the dangers,
if you still dare to stand as human –
I salute you, o brave beacon of life,
there is hope yet for human civilization!