Trapper John wrote:Lady Murasaki wrote:They may be the best of bedfellows but they leave destruction and devastation.
Creators and builders are better bedfellows.
You've missed my point. Conflict is most commonly considered to be the result of some earlier adverse action by another party, in it's basic sense, the retaliation or retribution coming about as a result of that adverse action, whatever it may be.
What I am saying is that Conflict has most often than not, certainly in written historical times, been the result of an action which
'never actually happened' which is where the propaganda comes in.
As I think the example in my OP clearly shows, 350 years of pain, misery, death and mistrust arising from an event which never actually took place, propaganda is the undisputed king of conflict in my view.
Well if you make the point properly to begin with it would help.
Propaganda works so well because people want to believe it. They want to believe the lies, for some selfish reason the lies work for them.