Propaganda Isn't Always False

From the 1920's all the way up to the end of the cold war, American industry was engaged in a war of ideas with socialism. Of course, the ideological struggle can be seen in non-propaganda pieces, too. For example, in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls-Wilder and in the poem The Ox Cart Man the virtues of capitalism (e.g. personal liberty and responsibility and private property) are extolled. But in these works, the economic and anthropological ideas are servants of the story. The propaganda of the 20th Century American industry was different in that the story was the servant of the ideology. This doesn't mean that the ideas are false, it merely means the presentation is ham-handed. Nevertheless, they are entertaining in a campy kind of way. Here is a fun little move produced by the Petroleum Institute:

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