00:00 One of the central themes of this video will be comparing the impact of propaganda in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. While the Slovak Republic has completely succumbed to foreign propaganda, the Czech Republic proudly resists propaganda.
Comparison of the quality of journalism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The purpose of this recording is to make people stop hating each other madly because of different political views, because propaganda forces them to do so.
In this recording, I will speak in a roundabout way so as not to provoke the hateful opinion camp.
We live in a time when people have gone completely crazy under the influence of propaganda. About 20-30% of people are more or less drawn into this propaganda. We can talk about an epidemic of hatred or mass madness of hatred and hate on social networks because of political opinion.
This video is specifically addressed to journalists.
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I'm following up on this video a bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAe2FuBDRyY
06:10 The indifference of the editors-in-chief of some media outlets to this matter is very sad. If I were a politician, I would declare a state of emergency because of how subversive foreign propaganda has destabilized the entire Slovak society. Due to the inaction and helpless observation of the media, we have this situation. The media should unite on this issue just as they did on the topic of Janko Kuciak.
07:55 I believe that people from the hateful opinion camp will not recognize themselves. It is very sad that society is in such a serious state of decay that I am forced to speak in such a roundabout way.
The aggressive opinion camp won't give me anything for free. These people are extremely aggressive if they hear anything other than one-sided facts/arguments that challenge their worldview. They don't even find out if I'm right, they don't care, they just know that everyone who has a different opinion needs to be hated. Anyone who questions their worldview is their enemy, but they don't care about the facts.
10:45 While in the past people were mainly divided by religion and religious wars, today it is mainly political ideology. History repeats itself. From the point of view of shamanism, ideology and religion work on exactly the same energies of egregors.
12:00 The indifference of journalists to address the culture of hatred is striking. It is very sad.
14:35 Comparison of the quality of journalism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We should be ashamed of how poor the level of journalism focused on foreign affairs is in Slovakia. Public opinion polls (their results) on how people believe propaganda in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are radically different.
15:50 During socialism, there was media freedom: people could choose either Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, or state media. In contrast, today in one post-communist superpower, there is even less freedom and greater control of the media than there was under socialism.
It is very sad that we in Slovakia voluntarily promote such a totalitarian regime and still perceive it as a symbol of progressiveness and advancement.
The double standards of people who believe in propaganda: according to propaganda, internet censorship should have been introduced in Slovakia several times and people should have been persecuted for their opinions on social networks, although this has never happened. On the contrary, this same propaganda does not mind promoting a dictatorship where citizens are actually imprisoned for opposition political views and where there is total control and censorship of the internet. Insane schizophrenia and madness of people who can believe in such double standards.
20:06 In Slovakia, we mistakenly believe (and both opinion camps agree on this) that we have a choice of media. The problem, however, is that the differences between the individual types of media are much smaller than we dare to admit. The reason? The problem is that the Slovak media uncritically adopts 95% of foreign news from the propagandistic-tabloid TASR. An explanation of what TASR actually is.
In Slovakia, we naively believe that we have a choice of media, but there is nothing to choose from – all media are infiltrated by propaganda.
We should be very ashamed in Slovakia that there are such extreme differences in the quality of foreign news in the Slovak and Czech media. The passivity of journalists, who do nothing about it, is very sad.
A very harsh question for the editors-in-chief of Slovak media: aren't you ashamed of taking over TASR's propaganda-tabloid news when you can write your own independent news? Something like this should never have happened.
33:37 proposal for a solution. Slovak media could agree on copyright and licensing with Czech media and take over their quality news.
34:35 We can't be surprised that we believe in propaganda in Slovakia when we only supply ourselves with one-sided propaganda and have never heard the other side of the coin. We have created our own world.
36:44 refuting the big myth that "it is enough for us to draw information exclusively from English-language sources". A big mistake. We forgot to draw information directly from the citizens of the totalitarian superpower in their language, to draw information from independent media that critically comment on the dictatorship in their country.
In Slovakia, we have many self-proclaimed "analysts" who are given too much space in the media, who confidently pretend to be the only ones who have a patent on the truth and very confidently defend a totalitarian regime as if it were right, but not a single such person has ever read an article. These pseudo-analysts express themselves on topics they do not understand at all.
40:50 We Slovaks have fallen so low that we want to lecture the citizens/inhabitants of their political superpower about how perfect and good their dictator is.
41:45 pseudo-analysts in dubious amateur media, although they act very confidently as if they are the only ones who have the patent on the truth, but they have never read any article in the language of the great power they are so wise about. That is why these people spread propaganda so fanatically and aggressively, because they are in self-deception. They are in self-deception because they know nothing about the dictatorship they are promoting.
43:53 while we in Slovakia live in our own world, in our own bubble, when we fill ourselves exclusively with one-sided information.
We are pleased to be deceived, to live in illusion, we do not want to hear the truth, because it does not fit into our worldview.
46:03 the element of martyrdom. Kotleba also succeeded in the elections on this principle. He lamented how the system was persecuting him, people felt sorry for him, so they voted for him. It is similar in foreign propaganda. The superpower laments that it is militarily surrounded, that the surrounding states are the enemy, but our good president will protect us from foreign enemies.
47:45 It's incredible how naively people are able to believe hoaxes, very bold, outrageous news that has no source of information. Where do people get so much stupidity to believe it?
Taking out of context and demagoguery in the reporting of amateur media
50:28 to the core of belief: why do we believe in propaganda in Slovakia and people don't believe in the Czech Republic? In Slovakia, we don't have any experts (except for one) who would oppose one-sided propaganda. We don't have people in Slovakia who draw from sources other than English-language foreign sources.
It is very easy for us to believe in propaganda when there is no one to disturb us from the pleasant sleep of the world of propaganda's illusion.
Propaganda in Slovakia is like cancer that is growing, but there is no one to stop it.
53:55 why it is pleasant to believe in hateful political propaganda, especially for people with an inferiority complex. They feel useful because they believe that at least through fanatical belief in propaganda they will help a superpower that everyone is wronging.
I return to the topic of Kotleba. The element of martyrdom. Martyrdom in the case of a foreign power.
58:55 Comparison of propaganda media with serious analyses, serious factual reporting. Propaganda media mainly try to evoke emotions in the reader and use very few facts. Mainly emotions of hatred – depicting neighboring states as enemies. Propaganda has no facts, no arguments, it just keeps repeating in different variations what could be summarized in one sentence: we are militarily surrounded, we are an armed fortress, the states from the surrounding bloc are our terribly bad enemies and are trying to attack us militarily, slandering states from another political bloc as much as possible.
On the contrary, serious analyst-journalists report completely differently: with very diverse and numerous arguments, they come up with something new in each article.
1:04:50 why in a dictatorship everything revolves around the army and military propaganda. For the dumber and more insecure people, the regime increases its popularity by flexing its military muscles. It's interesting that before that, no super-weapons existed, but just before the elections, our beloved clear favorite of the presidential elections spoke for a whole hour about strange super-weapons. Scaring people with nuclear weapons is also an important part of the propaganda of a totalitarian regime.
1:07:00 Why did the totalitarian superpower decide to base its propaganda solely on hatred? A clear explanation. A totalitarian politician wants to stay in power at all costs and be as popular as possible. All the country's economic failures (due to sanctions) are blamed on the "hostile" political bloc. A domestic politician blames their diplomatic and economic-social-reform incompetence on other foreign "hostile" states from another political bloc. You don't admit your own mistakes, so you blame the failure on the "hostile" foreign countries.
1:09:14 if you don't want to feed yourself only with one-sided information and one-sided propaganda, if you want to learn the truth in foreign news, read the Czech media, don't read the Slovak ones
1:10:45 a tiny spark of hope that with the new management at TASR, something will change for the better, at least a little bit
1:12:25 the Štefan Harabin hoax case
Additional completion of other items
1:15:33 The psychological origin of why we voluntarily do propaganda for a dictatorial regime. Strong nostalgia for the return of socialism.
We are promoting a criminal dictatorship where people are emigrating en masse because they can no longer stand it. We will never learn such information in the Slovak media. Apparently, we in Slovakia are not interested in the opinion of the local population on their criminal regime.
1:17:36 observation of the information and journalistic environment in the aforementioned unnamed dictatorship and in Slovakia. In a dictatorship, at least 14% of people follow independent media that refutes propaganda. On the contrary, in the Slovak Republic, we have no alternative, we have nothing to choose from. It is very scandalous that you can find out the truth more easily in a state of their own dictatorship than in Slovakia. We can be very ashamed that we have fallen so low.
1:23:59 if TASR wants to call itself objective, it must have 70% strongly critical articles about the aforementioned totalitarian regime, and the rest can be either laudatory or neutral
1:25:11 false ideas about Slavdom. Why do we present a dictatorial president who enslaves and harms his own population as a symbol of Slavdom? We can only call ourselves good Slavic patriots if we have at least that much respect for the enslaved Slavic population when we criticize their totalitarian dictator-president.
For Slovaks, the multicultural state is the main symbol of Slavdom.