{"id":1670,"date":"2010-11-22T14:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2010-11-22T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:52:51","slug":"retro-propaganda-for-a-retro-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Retro Propaganda for a Retro Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin represents “old-fashioned” values. You may see that as a good thing (if you’re conservative) or a bad thing (if you’re liberal). But whatever side you’re on, we pretty much all agree that she’s peddling a return to a hazy golden era of American history before the big-government welfare state arrived on the scene and ruined (conservative) or fixed (liberal) everything.<\/p>\n

What’s confusing is that she’s using ultra-modern media techniques to promulgate her retro message. She’s the queen of Twitter, Facebook, reality TV, soundbites and blogbursts. <\/p>\n

It may feel appropriate when progressive groups use outrageous postmodern propaganda to promote a postmodern ideology<\/a> — but the disconnect of Palin (and the movement she represents) using 21st-century technology to summon a bygone America has always left me a little unsettled.<\/p>\n

Shouldn’t we be using retro propaganda techniques to promote a retro ideology?<\/p>\n

My answer: Yes!<\/p>\n

The medium is<\/i> the message, people, and if you want to bring back the values of the past, you necessarily must<\/i> do so by utilizing the media techniques of that same past.<\/p>\n

In order to rectify this glaring omission in the conservative messaging arsenal, I have taken it upon myself to create the kind of propaganda that the Palin campaign (and she is<\/i> running for president, no doubt about it) ought<\/i> to be making:<\/p>\n

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(Click on the illustration [or here<\/a>] to view a full-size version of the poster, suitable for framing or detailed admiration.)<\/p>\n

This drawing is based on those classic “stairway to a better life” illustrations often found in early\/mid-20th-century self-help books and magazine articles.<\/p>\n

Print, link, distribute — backward to a better future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin represents “old-fashioned” values. You may see that as a good thing (if you’re conservative) or a bad thing (if you’re liberal). But whatever side you’re on, we pretty much all agree that she’s peddling a return to a hazy golden era of American history before the big-government welfare state arrived on the scene […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}