Now, obviously, this is a huge topic, and there's really no, there's really no good definitions for what

propaganda is or isn't. Propaganda covers all kinds of media, film, television, radio, posters,

art, school curriculum. And propaganda, well, I mean, is it, is it everything, are Coke ads

propaganda, or is it only Pepsi ads that are propaganda?

There's no real way of nailing down hard and fast definitions, but I do have four different

categories that I tend to think about propagandistic efforts.

And I think those are relatively helpful for thinking through what people are trying to

accomplish, what propaganda is supposed to do. So let's just quickly jump into those. I think that

there's four categories that's helpful to put things in. And even though there's tons of different

types of forms of propaganda, let's just focus on posters like World War II era propaganda posters

because those are super obvious. We all know what those look like. We can think of a bunch of

examples. So category number one is the reminding propaganda. So you see a poster that says

loose lips sink ships. It's reminding you that you should just, you know,

maintain a little bit of obsequic when you talk about where you're being stationed next. Or

don't waste metal or don't waste grease or don't waste food. These are just reminding you of

stuff that you already are on board with. And it's useful to in a diner have that poster up

there to remind people not to throw away too much food or whatever.

Really simple, straightforward, fairly innocuous, just reminders.

Then the next step up from that are the convincing posters.

Things like buy war bonds.

Generally, there's a message on there that tries to convince you that buying war bonds is a good idea.

You see the posters that say

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