{"id":539903,"date":"2022-03-04T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T09:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=236095"},"modified":"2022-03-04T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T09:47:24","slug":"how-propaganda-shapes-the-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/04\/how-propaganda-shapes-the-past-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"How Propaganda Shapes the Past, Present and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a famous quote from George Orwell\u2019s dystopian novel 1984, that goes, \u201cthose who control the present control the past and those who control the past control the future.\u201d This process is achieved by substituting propaganda for reality. In so doing, thinking is bound to present culturally acceptable storylines that support official views of  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/04\/how-propaganda-shapes-the-past-present-and-future\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/04\/how-propaganda-shapes-the-past-present-and-future\/\">How Propaganda Shapes the Past, Present and Future<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/04\/how-propaganda-shapes-the-past-present-and-future\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a famous quote from George Orwell\u2019s dystopian novel 1984, that goes, \u201cthose who control the present control the past and those who control the past control the future.\u201d This process is achieved by substituting propaganda for reality. In so doi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539904,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539903\/revisions\/539904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}