The diagram elements for patriotized history:
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Definition of
patriotized historyPatriotized history
creates a false version of historical events; it paints a picture of what happened in the world, and that picture is different from what actually happened.
Patriotized history
is much more important than
patriotized morality. Once that false picture of what happened has been painted in people's minds, getting them to support or identify with the US government (the job of
patriotized morality) is easy.
The six diagram elements for
patriotized history
Like patriotized morality, patriotized history has six diagram elements, and within three of those diagram element categories, there is a small set of common items that are found in text after text. The same
patriotic core
components, the same
techniques,
and the same
patriotic changes
tend to be found over and over.
The delivery diagram elements for
patriotized history
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All patriotic messages convey a component of the
patriotic core. In
patriotized history, this is always one of the
core myths,
a set of five descriptive beliefs about US actions in all countries worldwide. The
core myths
say that the actions of the US and its followers are self-sacrificing, humanitarian, pro-freedom, self-defensive, and law-abiding.
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The patriotic text delivers the
patriotic message.
For patriotized history, the
patriotic message
is always a
message (of patriotized history).
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Every patriotic
text
uses a
technique
to convey the
patriotic message. There is a small set of
techniques
that get used over and over in many different texts.
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As in all propaganda, the
text
in
patriotized history
is written or spoken words, pictures, or other objects that people can see or hear.
The contrast diagram elements for
patriotized history
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For patriotized history, the
message (of patriotized history)
is patriotic because it leaves out or changes any actual history that violates one of the
core myths.
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All patriotic messages are contrasted with an
unpatriotized element.
For
patriotized history, the
unpatriotized element
is what actually happened; it includes facts that violate the myths of the
patriotic core,
and so can't be included in a patriotic text. We call this the
unpatriotized history; it is the historical events as they occurred.
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For all propaganda, there is a
patriotic change
that is required to convert the
unpatriotized element
into the
patriotic message.
For patriotized history, the
patriotic change is a removal, replacement, or reversal of the historical facts.
We call this the
patriotic change (of history).
There are just a few of these that are used in text after text.
On the left under the diagram are links to the six diagram elements. Each diagram element's link leads to a discussion of that diagram element category as it is found in patriotized history. For the three diagram element categories where there is a small set of common items that are found in many different texts, there is also a list of these common items. For each item in the list, there is a definition and excerpts from texts (mostly news articles) that exemplify it.
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patriotized history
