1. Readings from this semester
1.1. Week 2: Fairfax Resolves (Virgina) - And also important constitutions and acts
1.1.1. Notes
1.1.1.1. Good people of the Fairfax County were no deluded fools for pointing out there was premediated design and system formed and pursued by the British
1.1.1.1.1. Set of resolutions for the cause of the intolerable act, that was made.-
1.1.1.1.2. We essential read about "The Struggle for American Independence" and the First Continental Congress
1.1.1.2. The radical set of resolutions presented in the commitee established was a big part of the quest for American Independence
1.1.1.3. No official report made on an important event in the past 70+ years has debunked real conspiracy evidence, only selected theories that were obviously false, and only by omitting key facts.
1.1.2. Conspiracy is real! It is a legal term, not aword for journalists to throw as amature psychological diagnoses
1.1.2.1. Unseen villains
1.1.2.2. Top secret cures, in the quest for reassurance during for example this pandemic, many people are worsening their anxiety because:
1.1.2.2.1. Many false claims are promoted by governments and other authorities, seeking to hide their failures or gain political benefits
1.1.2.3. In the US: Trump pushed unproven cures and blamedeflecting falsehoods.
1.1.2.3.1. Maybe Trump is trying to market his future campaign?
1.1.2.3.2. In Venezuela, President Nicolas suggested that the virus was an American bioweapon aimed at china
1.1.2.3.3. Where Iran also thought of it as a plot by the US to suppress their vote
1.1.2.4. Governments and journalists, with an agenda may find opportunity in confusion and times of misinformation
1.1.2.4.1. In Fairfax Resolves we essentially read about how the people of the United States were governed by Britain, but Britain was not being very clear on how they were ruling
1.1.2.5. Like Hans Mentioned:
1.1.2.5.1. They knew that if the king has all power, nothing happens unless he agrees with his representatives that it should happen
1.1.3. What we Learned
1.1.4. Passed July 18, 1774
1.1.4.1. Resolved
1.1.4.2. Britain had improperly violated the colonial charters
1.1.4.3. People could not be governed by laws which their representatives have not consented to
1.1.4.3.1. Protesting against the intolerable acts
1.1.4.4. They agreed that the nonimportation effort should continue
1.1.4.4.1. After Boston teaparty
1.1.4.5. A general Congress comprised of representatives from different states
1.1.4.5.1. Declaration of Independence
1.1.4.6. Parliamentary Sovereignty is "diamettrically contrary to the first Principles of the Constitution, and the original Compacts by which we are dependent
1.1.5. Week 2
1.1.5.1. Presented other sources:
1.1.5.2. Cestui que vie Act
1.1.5.2.1. Proof required for deseased people over seas, so the British know what happened
1.1.5.3. Sherman Act 1890
1.1.5.3.1. The law attempts to prevent the artificial raising of prices by restriction of trade or supply
1.1.5.4. Nuremberg Trials
1.1.5.4.1. Following the content and sources of week 2 - Bulding on the Fairfax Resolves, we later read about the Nuremberg Trials
1.1.5.4.2. They had to figure to which extent where these people knowing of the propaganda what they were exposed to and participated in
1.1.5.4.3. This was the problem with mass propaganda and the effects from manipulating crowds in politics. This is the most extreme comparison I can draw to what the cause and effects of propaganda is
1.2. Week 3 - Exercising your freedom and utilizing the constitution
1.2.1. Declaration of Independence
1.2.1.1. Presented the legislative branches
1.2.1.1.1. Legislative, executive and judicial
1.2.1.2. "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights[...]"
1.2.1.2.1. Which then led to the US going against the British agenda and conspiracy that they originally conspired to, somewhat, rule the world.
1.2.2. Why the NDAA is unconstitutional
1.2.2.1. National Defense Authorization Act
1.2.2.1.1. Bill of rights passed on being legally able to imprison those whom the government deem as terriosts for howlever long the organization is active
1.2.3. Obama dissenting against laws that violate the Constitution
1.2.3.1. Obama used his executive power and tried to gain more power and force people to pay taxes for something that perhaps they nor wanted or needed
1.2.3.1.1. Therefore it is unconstitusional
1.2.4. Ongoing Theme week 2 to week 3
1.2.4.1. Exercising freedoms and constitutions and trying to look at different perspectives of conspiracy theories, which could bring issues such as propaganda or disinformation.
1.2.4.1.1. But in the case of the Fairfax County and the US <--
1.2.4.2. The laws and constitutions set in place in any country, should always be safe and ensure ones legal rights.
1.2.4.2.1. If not, it would become a issue of propaganda or agenda from the government, could cause dystopian problems and events
1.2.4.3. They saved their country from an imperialistic superpower: The British, by uncovering the truth about the premediated design
1.2.4.4. You get the sense of the second amendment being vital, when the government takes away all the rights you have, you always have a basic right to ensure your rights as a citizen of a country
1.2.4.4.1. Like the British king, government sees the population of the US as a conquered nation, which was what the Fairfax Resolves exposed.
2. Psywar
2.1. Week 5: Eurasia
2.1.1. Agenda?
2.1.2. Geostrategy
2.1.3. Heartland Theory: Would this be a conspiracy?
2.2. Psychological warfare, using manipulation propaganda and et cetra. This could perhaps be compared to the cold war
2.2.1. the great game
2.3. Plant "democracy movements"
2.4. Which is better: Capitalism or Communism?
3. School system: Also built to maintain control of a certain population
4. My total reflections
4.1. Fight for what you believe is right
4.1.1. Use the laws and constitutions to do so
4.2. Propaganda and conspiraces are real
4.3. As well as in history I think that...
4.3.1. We are facing a lot of propaganda in this modern history from now until November because there is so much out there in the public record
4.3.2. Only when Trump prevents Americans from knowing what happened from December to March can he possibly win the election, I dont think the profession of journalism or the media system as a whole is in any way prepared for that
5. A way of communicating to primarily influence an audience and further an agenda
5.1. Propaganda required in order to maintain control
5.1.1. Modern Propaganda:
5.1.1.1. Same techniques, but with globalization, anyone could go viral
5.1.1.2. Today, propaganda posters have been replaced by digital visuals, such as the meme, that are easily produced, mass-disseminated and politically pointed
5.1.2. Danger with memes?
5.1.2.1. Discerning facts from ficton has become the real challenge with the lastest incarnation of visual propaganda.
5.1.2.2. Will it play a part of a new political history?
5.2. Are news becoming more partisan, more divisive and lurid?
5.2.1. Can governments or news be objective?
5.2.1.1. Freedom from BIAS
6. We should ask ourselves:
6.1. Are conspiraces propaganda?
6.1.1. "When Fake News became fake history"
6.1.1.1. Week 10
6.1.1.1.1. Historic events that are actually faked or manipulated to have another outcome: And there is false history
6.1.1.1.2. I want to mention that the US perhaps had just as much propaganda if not more than communism during the time of terror
7. Century of the Self
7.1. Sigmund Freud
7.1.1. Psychoanalysis,
7.1.2. Changed our perception of the mind and its workings
7.1.2.1. Exploring various ways that governments and corporations have used Freud's theories
7.2. All consuming century
7.2.1. Has commercalism won?
7.2.1.1. Marketing important to maintain control?