Personal values analysis in World War I cultural matrix and bureaucracy

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There are a number of different attributes assigned to the term propaganda within the World War I Cultural Matrix. This document presents both informal and formal definitions of this term, as well as many different connotations that it has. In adhering to the cultural motif of World War I, virtually all of the examples about propaganda have to do with Hitler's use of this tool in mobilizing the masses of Germans for his global campaign. More compelling still is the fact that this document alludes to the enduring nature of propaganda as a vital tool for the 'machinery' of bureaucracy, or rather that of modern bureaucracy. As such, there are several examples of contemporary propaganda that one can cite and which have a certain degree of relevance in the life of the author of this paper as well as that of those who live in these contemporary times.

Quite simply, propaganda is defined within the World War I cultural matrix as a particular form of a combination of visual and verbal language that selectively spreads information, utilizes a willingness to lie, manipulates language in an attempt to confuse, has a definite victim and perpetrator it attempts to help, and mobilizes the masses of people into action (No author, no date). The primary example that was utilized within this document was Hitler's deployment of what was at the time the new medium of film to convince Germans of their superiority and of their duty to exterminate those within their country and within the world who were different from them.

Such propagandist techniques are still readily employed today. Some of these techniques utilize film, but technology has advanced past the days of Hitler's silent movies. Instead, the more powerful tools for the dissemination of propaganda in contemporary times are electronic media such as television news broadcasts, as well as those which are eternally replicated on the internet and readily accessed via mobile devices of a multitude of designs. However, the principle function of propaganda in contemporary times is still the same as it was during the World War I Cultural Matrix -- to pass off notions on people and spur them into action.

The so-called War on Terror, particularly when it was concentrated on Iraq, is an excellent example of the deployment of modern day propaganda to fulfill bureaucratic objectives. Television media, as well as print and video broadcasts, abounded for months (if not years) as former president George Walker Bush readily disseminated the notion that Iraq possessed "weapons of mass destruction" (Starr and Labott, 2005). This catch phrase, and the notion that Iraq had been and was still doing something wrong that only the United States could prevent, was forced upon people via the aforementioned media. In such a way, the government was making sure that it had domestic support for what was actually a thinly veiled form of imperialism. Yet the means of propagating this propaganda was so effective that people readily supported this notion -- and still considered the U.S. To be 'at war' even after no such weapons were ever found.

When analyzing the effects of propaganda on bureaucracy, however, it is important to understand just what the bureaucratic process means in a modern sense, which emerged around the time that the World War I Cultural Matrix was thriving. This term is formerly defined in the matrix as "a system of management invented after the Industrial Revolution to serve the needs of large-scale political, business, and educational institutions in capitalistic democracy" (No author, no date). There are a number of facets of this definition that are directly aligned with America's purported War on Terror when it was centered on Iraq The political and business institutions temporarily merged together as control over Iraq allowed the U.S. To gain control over some of its oil supply. Thus, there had to be a reason for such a conflict, and there was certainly propaganda required to convince the people of this fact.