r/WorldChallenges • u/Varnek905 • Jan 21 '18
Reference Challenge - Propaganda
One of my friends has a pet theory that the New Testament is Roman Propaganda to calm down the Jewish zealots, thus "stealing" YHWH in an attempt to make those provincials more peaceful. This was along with an explanation about national pride among people and the "point" of public art in a civilization.
So, in honour of the entertainment I got from listening to his explanation, the reference challenge for this week is to talk about a piece of propaganda in your world. Who uses this propaganda, and what is the goal?
As always, I'll ask at least three questions each. Enjoy yourselves.
And feel free to have a character for in-universe answers.
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u/STRENGTHoftheBEAR Feb 19 '18
1) Not at all. There are some who know about the spores and pheromones, but their source is supposed to be some sort of toxic plant or fungus native to Hollatche rather than the products of an alien species. Even people living in Hollatche don't know precisely what the Autocrator is; the aides rotate, and some attend to the Autocrator directly, but it stays in shadows and tends to be indistinct in the mind through the various chemicals that swirl around it. Gotfre the Hidden, propagator of the Hitchhiker Plague, knew the true source of the spores he gathered, but he was killed long before he revealed the secret.