Welcome back to another edition of Cap'n Howdy's Video Daily Double. Usually, I load up on the snark under the guise of whatever level of propaganda this week's films cover (or, in the case of last week, just give you an introduction about two shorts that are actually informative about a subject). This week, however, I found two movies that do all the work for themselves. Both are social engineering shorts, one designed to shame students into not being "left out" (okay, maybe that's fair), and another film that extols the virtues of propaganda. No, seriously.
On with the movies!
(by the way, I apologize for the commercial in front of the second film, although I appreciate the unintentional irony of YouTube trying to sell products in front of "educational" films)
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Our first film, Am I Trustworthy? is about some sad sack that people don't trust to do anything. Why don't they trust him? Not because he doesn't bother telling people anything; it's because they doubt his ability to be a model citizen. Just being well behaved isn't enough, you see.
Our second film, Propaganda Techniques, is exactly what it sounds like. For fun, suss out what message this "exploration of propaganda" is trying to sell you.
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