“Images are a powerful tool in the hands of propagandists. A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes. If a powerful image can be manipulated to tell a tale even if false, it can persuade more viscerally than can a thousand reasoned arguments”.
Sabba: you are undoubtedly correct that “a powerful image can be manipulated to … persuade more viscerally than can a thousand reasoned arguments”.
An educational system worth its salt would train its young people to be able to defend themselves against powerful images.
Powerful images are weapons in a perpetual civil war in every nation directed against ordinary people from early infancy onwards. We give our children – as absolutely defenceless infants onwards – to our enemies to do with what they will.
Remember the famous maxim: “Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.” It doesn’t matter who said it.
The fact is when we set our children in front of a television set, we abandon them to enemy fire. What do our enemies fire at them? Powerful images which affect them viscerally!