Propaganda and How To See Through It Propaganda a word for the systematic propagation of a doctrine that reflects the views and interests of those advocating such doctrine. Propaganda has long been the focus of efforts by totalitarian governments. Propaganda is used as a means to control those of which it is directed. Propaganda controls people by directing the aggression and resentment to a nonadjacent entity, taking away the sense and destroying the very logic that could be used to resist the propaganda itself of freedom, and to silence any of those who oppose that which the propaganda addresses. Although George Orwell’s novel, 1984 is designed as a satire and hypothetical future, the book is also designed as a warning to make sure that