The ironic thing about all of this is that the strategy of presenting a negative spin on a people's history, is that it would be more effective on White Europeans than any other racial group. That is the tragedy of these lies, it is the fact that Europeans have high levels of empathy, and curiosity. Good attributes, used a weapon to destroy us, with many of us aiding our destruction.
Another great analysis, MW. I watched this as a child and did not realise the propaganda aspects, simply absorbing them into my impressionable young mind.
The white boomer leftists of the 1960s & 70s formed an entire class of useful idiots. The notion of the 'noble savage' vs the evil white British empire was a key trope for them. The story's final transformation of Ky the Solonian into an angel is an unwitting self parody of this idea.
While modern Dr Who is gross propaganda, it's interesting to go back and look at the classic series for similar messaging. I'm sure you know the story 'Curse of Peladon' which presents ideas of progress vs conservatism. Although in this case, the galactic federation was portrayed as a sort of noble 'globalism' vs the small minded 'nationalism' of the planet Peladon.
Yes, I rewatched Peladon recently. This essay actually grew out of a different essay which is a general summary of left-wing propaganda during the Pertwee era. That will be published in a few months - I need to watch three stories in order to finish writing it.
And yet, one can find dialogue such as the below from the Shows very first episode from 1963, note how the Doctor referred to the American Indians:
IAN: Just let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?
SUSAN: Yes.
DOCTOR: Quite so.
IAN: But that's ridiculous.
SUSAN: Why won't they believe us?
BARBARA: How can we?
DOCTOR: Now, now, don't get exasperated, Susan. Remember the Red Indian. When he saw the first steam train, his savage mind thought it an illusion, too.
Wowser! Great take-down. Somehow it brought to mind a recent experience rereading (or reading for the first time) some Louis Lamour westerns. The series starts in the swamps of England and traces the escape of peasants and low caste Brits to the new world with all its vicissitudes. Lamour, decried by the intelligentsia of America, had a keen appreciation for the freedom offered by the wide open spaces of the new continent and his early stories, particularly, are filled with wonder for the experience of being self-reliant. He was a great story-teller and his stories were heart-felt, particularly the early ones. Well-worth reading in sequence because new ideas do pop into his head, even in the books that seem to be merely reusing a narrative over and over. Thanks for connecting a couple more dots in my memory and mind. I have ancestors who were indentured servants in 1800 Virginia and Kentucky. They had to petition a court for permission to marry and agree that any of their children would be indentured behind them for decades. A story not told in our contemporary culture but worth exploring.
Describing a people or ethnic group as 'superior' is always perfectly fine, as long as one makes it very clear that they're superior to Whites. Even so early as 1972, as one can see here.
I was ten when this episode of Doctor Who - a show I liked, although it was no where near as good as Star Trek - was aired. I don’t remember the episode, of course not, what stays in my memory more is the clothes the various doctors wore, the long knitted scarf, the velvet jackets and cravats. I watched a great deal of tv as a child and no doubt I was influenced by all the propaganda but how much, well - who knows? I didn’t, however, buy into the ‘Feed the World’ nonsense of 1984. Feeding starving people bags of flour? Really? I knew even then that we were feeding people who had been starved by their own ‘governments’, and I had the idea that the blacks of those countries were unable to run functioning societies, so why pour money and flour down the drain? Perhaps I subconsciously thought then that we were creating problems for the future. Now I know that to be true.
I think a much, much bigger tv psych-op was Roots, aired in 1977, the beginning of the lie that all blacks are hard-working saints and all white evil slavers. I did fall for that, because the story telling was so compelling…I suppose some lies we see through, others not so much. Nowadays I presume everything is a lie if broadcast by the MSM. Open borders have made me even more of a racist than I was when I wouldn’t buy into Bob Geldof’s scam, but the evil ones really don’t care what I feel or think, unless I voice my racism on Facebook, of course…
Intriguing article. I'm old enough to remember the original screening (I was 7). I certainly didn't pick up on all the Empire stuff, but I remember it was the first Dr Who story I found slightly boring. Further to the Bristolian neighbour question, the term 'non-whites' was not current in 1970. If he'd meant blacks he'd have said blacks, or he might have said n*ggers, which was still current. Also, it's debatable whether Bantus can be considered anymore native to Southern Africa than Europeans. The population of 'Zimbabwe' is 2/3 Cameroonian ancestry (the latter being a Bantu group).
I have a history degree, and I have never regretted getting one. Why not? Because I know the truth, the facts regarding many historical events--not the Hollywood version of them. Script writers and directors can get away with these distortions because today the average person is ignorant of history.
I have watched countless interviews where leftist say outrageously false things regarding history--sometimes even shouting 'Fact!' after making totally false statements. In the 1970s or 80s, these false statements would probably not have gone unchallenged. Today, however, the average journalist is an ignoramus and doesn't seem to understand that he is being lied to.
Go on YouTube, and you will find a lot of leftist propaganda--agitprop. There are a lot of credible history channels out there; usually channels run by history writers with books to sell. (And more power to them!) However, the number of agitprop videos is stunning. YT will police (and usually delete) videos that mention someone being killed (instead YTubers use the term 'un-alived' to avoid being banned) but let outrageously untrue history videos go unchallenged.
The one thing that television, YT, and popular media cannot do is hide reality forever. Now people are being attacked, raped, robbed, and murdered by migrants in their hometowns across the West. It's truly terrible that it has taken this much to awaken people to reality.
The 70s was a time of liberal indulgence. The West was still overwhelming populated by their native white populations; the danger was distant. Not so today.
I view past empires with interest--as a historian. The past is what it is. All nations and peoples (yes, 'peoples') have conquered and enslaved their neighbors. Empires and slavery are not solely the domains of Europeans. I know this. Many people know this. But many don't, and they are taught that Europeans are uniquely guilty of these things and therefore should not resist being destroyed by foreign invaders. This is why knowledge of history is fundamental to survival. I have never supported the idea of colonizing others, and I don't want anyone colonizing me.
Now, with the West collapsing under the weight of bloated welfare states (supporting millions upon million of 3rd world migrants, many of them illegals), horrendous levels of violent crime, decaying infrastructure, and national bankruptcy, Europeans are now facing a stark choice: Fight back or die along with their countries.
I think The Marshal has a rather striking physical resemblance to another Marshal: Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. I'm sure just a coincidence.
The ironic thing about all of this is that the strategy of presenting a negative spin on a people's history, is that it would be more effective on White Europeans than any other racial group. That is the tragedy of these lies, it is the fact that Europeans have high levels of empathy, and curiosity. Good attributes, used a weapon to destroy us, with many of us aiding our destruction.
Another great analysis, MW. I watched this as a child and did not realise the propaganda aspects, simply absorbing them into my impressionable young mind.
The white boomer leftists of the 1960s & 70s formed an entire class of useful idiots. The notion of the 'noble savage' vs the evil white British empire was a key trope for them. The story's final transformation of Ky the Solonian into an angel is an unwitting self parody of this idea.
While modern Dr Who is gross propaganda, it's interesting to go back and look at the classic series for similar messaging. I'm sure you know the story 'Curse of Peladon' which presents ideas of progress vs conservatism. Although in this case, the galactic federation was portrayed as a sort of noble 'globalism' vs the small minded 'nationalism' of the planet Peladon.
Yes, I rewatched Peladon recently. This essay actually grew out of a different essay which is a general summary of left-wing propaganda during the Pertwee era. That will be published in a few months - I need to watch three stories in order to finish writing it.
And yet, one can find dialogue such as the below from the Shows very first episode from 1963, note how the Doctor referred to the American Indians:
IAN: Just let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?
SUSAN: Yes.
DOCTOR: Quite so.
IAN: But that's ridiculous.
SUSAN: Why won't they believe us?
BARBARA: How can we?
DOCTOR: Now, now, don't get exasperated, Susan. Remember the Red Indian. When he saw the first steam train, his savage mind thought it an illusion, too.
I love Dr Who, but nothing made after 1989. I have a collection of DVDs of old movies and mini-series that is my oasis.
Wowser! Great take-down. Somehow it brought to mind a recent experience rereading (or reading for the first time) some Louis Lamour westerns. The series starts in the swamps of England and traces the escape of peasants and low caste Brits to the new world with all its vicissitudes. Lamour, decried by the intelligentsia of America, had a keen appreciation for the freedom offered by the wide open spaces of the new continent and his early stories, particularly, are filled with wonder for the experience of being self-reliant. He was a great story-teller and his stories were heart-felt, particularly the early ones. Well-worth reading in sequence because new ideas do pop into his head, even in the books that seem to be merely reusing a narrative over and over. Thanks for connecting a couple more dots in my memory and mind. I have ancestors who were indentured servants in 1800 Virginia and Kentucky. They had to petition a court for permission to marry and agree that any of their children would be indentured behind them for decades. A story not told in our contemporary culture but worth exploring.
Describing a people or ethnic group as 'superior' is always perfectly fine, as long as one makes it very clear that they're superior to Whites. Even so early as 1972, as one can see here.
Nice piece for a Sunday read, Woes.
I was ten when this episode of Doctor Who - a show I liked, although it was no where near as good as Star Trek - was aired. I don’t remember the episode, of course not, what stays in my memory more is the clothes the various doctors wore, the long knitted scarf, the velvet jackets and cravats. I watched a great deal of tv as a child and no doubt I was influenced by all the propaganda but how much, well - who knows? I didn’t, however, buy into the ‘Feed the World’ nonsense of 1984. Feeding starving people bags of flour? Really? I knew even then that we were feeding people who had been starved by their own ‘governments’, and I had the idea that the blacks of those countries were unable to run functioning societies, so why pour money and flour down the drain? Perhaps I subconsciously thought then that we were creating problems for the future. Now I know that to be true.
I think a much, much bigger tv psych-op was Roots, aired in 1977, the beginning of the lie that all blacks are hard-working saints and all white evil slavers. I did fall for that, because the story telling was so compelling…I suppose some lies we see through, others not so much. Nowadays I presume everything is a lie if broadcast by the MSM. Open borders have made me even more of a racist than I was when I wouldn’t buy into Bob Geldof’s scam, but the evil ones really don’t care what I feel or think, unless I voice my racism on Facebook, of course…
Intriguing article. I'm old enough to remember the original screening (I was 7). I certainly didn't pick up on all the Empire stuff, but I remember it was the first Dr Who story I found slightly boring. Further to the Bristolian neighbour question, the term 'non-whites' was not current in 1970. If he'd meant blacks he'd have said blacks, or he might have said n*ggers, which was still current. Also, it's debatable whether Bantus can be considered anymore native to Southern Africa than Europeans. The population of 'Zimbabwe' is 2/3 Cameroonian ancestry (the latter being a Bantu group).
I have a history degree, and I have never regretted getting one. Why not? Because I know the truth, the facts regarding many historical events--not the Hollywood version of them. Script writers and directors can get away with these distortions because today the average person is ignorant of history.
I have watched countless interviews where leftist say outrageously false things regarding history--sometimes even shouting 'Fact!' after making totally false statements. In the 1970s or 80s, these false statements would probably not have gone unchallenged. Today, however, the average journalist is an ignoramus and doesn't seem to understand that he is being lied to.
Go on YouTube, and you will find a lot of leftist propaganda--agitprop. There are a lot of credible history channels out there; usually channels run by history writers with books to sell. (And more power to them!) However, the number of agitprop videos is stunning. YT will police (and usually delete) videos that mention someone being killed (instead YTubers use the term 'un-alived' to avoid being banned) but let outrageously untrue history videos go unchallenged.
The one thing that television, YT, and popular media cannot do is hide reality forever. Now people are being attacked, raped, robbed, and murdered by migrants in their hometowns across the West. It's truly terrible that it has taken this much to awaken people to reality.
The 70s was a time of liberal indulgence. The West was still overwhelming populated by their native white populations; the danger was distant. Not so today.
I view past empires with interest--as a historian. The past is what it is. All nations and peoples (yes, 'peoples') have conquered and enslaved their neighbors. Empires and slavery are not solely the domains of Europeans. I know this. Many people know this. But many don't, and they are taught that Europeans are uniquely guilty of these things and therefore should not resist being destroyed by foreign invaders. This is why knowledge of history is fundamental to survival. I have never supported the idea of colonizing others, and I don't want anyone colonizing me.
Now, with the West collapsing under the weight of bloated welfare states (supporting millions upon million of 3rd world migrants, many of them illegals), horrendous levels of violent crime, decaying infrastructure, and national bankruptcy, Europeans are now facing a stark choice: Fight back or die along with their countries.