Propaganda doesn't always mean fabrication. That’s the most basic misunderstanding. Propaganda is often selective truth, not pure lies. It curates what’s shown, when, and to whom.

Power doesn’t need to lie outright when it can stage reality.

But most people don’t train themselves to read power.They train themselves to pick sides, even if they claim to be neutral, impartial, or irrelevant, just anything to prevent their thoughts from working overtime, even if they claim to hold two truths at once, and that’s the mistake. In reality, there are not just two truths or sides.

No wonder they retreat into binaries: real vs fake, West vs non-West, truth vs propaganda.

Yes, it is about campist roleplaying as anti-imperialist.