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You most certainly can argue with a Meme. For every argument that can be made with a meme, there is a meme that counters said argument. Sometimes one need only fight fire with fire.
Honestly I'm not sure Goebbel's job would be any easier today. People may have more junk stuffed into their heads now than ever before, but at the end of the day all the education and information in the world can not help those who don't have the ability and/or drive to weed through it all and find an application for it. Hence the reason Goebbel's words are just as applicable now as they were in the 1930s and 40s. The same reason the public at large is falling for the same strategies he and Hitler used:
"His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."
Look familiar? It should. The US propaganda machine follows this pattern to the letter, and they do it for a reason - this is all it takes to hoodwink the average person of average intelligence. It's easier to latch onto a pseudo fact that matches your perception and world view than it is to challenge them and dig for the truth behind said pseudo fact. Most people will take the path of least resistance rather than dig into a topic and find they may have actually been wrong.
TV, Elton Brown.. saying about 20 times so far..99.9% of germs. WooWoo strange things are afoot!
Sorry............I give up! :roflmao
I have a couple of friends who frequently email 'factoids' on controversial matters. Usually related to current events. I go to Fact Check, Snopes, and such like and 9 out of 10 times the "make sure you send this to 10 friends" emails are malarkey. That is how I argue with a meme. :beer2:
If you want to truly understand today's propaganda machine, you must not only take Hitler's propaganda machine into account, you must also read and understand Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals". Rule 13, in particular, has been used to destroy the good names, reputations, and lives of many decent people.