Propaganda

To the fans of this movie: I am sorry, but you are worshiping a false idol.

This movie lies about far more than religion. There are places where it makes claims of verifiable fact in contrary to the conclusions of its own cited sources (McNamara on the Gulf of Tonkin incident for one) in order to further its own polemic agenda. That is the very definition of propaganda.

As someone who agrees with some of the basic premises of the film, particularly as regards the Federal Reserve, the congressional-military-industrial complex and imperial projects, I am saddened that people are pushing propaganda on these subjects. The truth is damning enough, even if too complicated to cram all those subjects into a single film. And once you step off into the land of propaganda, you ensure the failure of any project whose aim is the liberation of people.

"If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings. Dialogue is thus an existential necessity. And since dialogue is the encounter in which the united reflection and action of the dialoguers are addressed to the world which is to be transformed and humanized, this dialogue cannot be reduced to the act of one person's "depositing" ideas in another, nor can it become a simple exchange of ideas to be "consumed" by the discussants. Nor yet is it a hostile, polemical argument between those who are committed neither to the naming of the world, nor to the search for truth, but rather to the imposition of their own truth. Because dialogue is an encounter among women and men who name the world, it must not be a situation where some name on behalf of others. It is an act of creation; it must not serve as a crafty instrument for the domination of one person by another. The domination implicit in dialogue is that of the world by the dialoguers; it is conquest of the world for the liberation of humankind."

Paulo Freire

The only truly subversive method is truth telling. Lies, even if they force a change in political orientation of a society, ensure the continued domination of the oppressed by elites. If you doubt that, study the history of the USSR.

"You are a riddle wrapped in an enigma drizzled in delicious bullsh!t."