Countering Propaganda

2026-05-25 · Ho Chanh Nghia

Originally published on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/countering-propaganda-khanh-pham-eti2c/

Countering Propaganda

K-12, 10 years of college. This is the standard model, consistent, low stress, high frequency.

What if you want to undo 20 years of propaganda?

You cannot just pull it out and toss it in a dumpster.

The Buddha teaches meditation. First to improve focus muscle, and second, to improve context window for meditating on complex issues. Most stare at a wall till they die.

If I am 50, and I spend 10 years practicing meditation to some competent level, I will be 60. At 60, there’s not much left of a life to do anything about new insight. So it will just be used for watering the garden, feeding chickens, dogs, cats, and pulling weeds.

Terence McKenna and Timothy Leary, supposedly worked with the CIA to experiment with drugs on human. Perhaps part of the MKII ultra program, perhaps not. Does it matter? CIA doing medical experiments on Americans! He discovered that DMT is able to decouple the cultural indoctrination from the individual. What happens after the individual is decoupled from his cultural and ego? I don’t know. Sounds dangerous. I haven’t tried but will likely want to experience it. To experience what it is like to completely shatter the matrix. Even though there’s the fear of being alive with all things shattered.

An American Indian, who was also a Green Beret, showed me a shortcut to meditation without DMT. As I understand it, near death experience make all things clear. How you achieve it is all on your imagination. But a basic process is sleep, and food deprivation. Eventually you’re going to be near death, if not dead.

I stopped working and chasing money about 2019. I binge a lot of movies. 10,000 hours of Korean dramas. 1,000-2,000 hours of Turkish historical propaganda. 1,000 hours of Russian historical dramas. 10,000 hours of Chinese Anime. On top of millions of hours of Chinese dramas from the 90s.

20 years of school and 10 years of military indoctrination is a lot of indoctrination. But, it doesn’t work on me as it works on most people. I was never a conformist. From childhood, I questioned adults, and my own parents. Before joining the military, I already led teams with experts 30 years older than myself. The American propaganda is like a drop of fresh water into the Atlantic ocean. Doesn’t have a lot of meaning where propaganda is concerned.

Maybe an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Learning English did not protect me from CCP propaganda. Learning Mandarin probably will not protect you against American propaganda either. But just knowing about both CCP propaganda and American propaganda helps to insulate, isolate, and discern propaganda as propaganda. If you’re on the American embassy website learning English from Americans, you’re receiving propaganda. We’re not going to tell you to hate Americans. We will likely tell you to think and speak in ways that we approve, think and speak things that will be of benefit to Americans. Should we expect anything less from any government or country?

Having died too many times, probably has the most impact. For a dead person, propaganda holds little meaning. There are things I have to do, and there are things I want to do. Where does CCP propaganda fit into any of my daily drives? Where does American propaganda fit into any of my daily wants and needs?

I have not heard of any parents putting their children through death to improve their resistance to propaganda. Maybe there’s that Elon Musk, who was sent to survival camp where he was bullied to death. I heard the Koreans send their children to boarding school. Guess parental love is not all that important. As Elon Musk and the Korean are very popular as success stories.

I had always rejected popular trends as far back as I can recall. Perhaps, ever since my aunt beat me to death at 6, I started to reject everything. Maybe that is what parents should do. Have their children be beaten to death, so they can resist propaganda.

The entire society is one big complex propaganda machine. How is anyone to avoid it? Was I lucky to be born and existed outside of it my entire life? Was I unlucky to be outside of society my entire life? It wouldn’t be all that bad to be part of society, and sing and dance like the rest of the apes. Why should one be alone in life, looking in at society. We sing and dance and die. We sit outside and criticize society, and die. What differences does it really make for anyone.

My friend worries, I will raise my son to live outside society like myself. But ironically, my son is the only child being raised with his father in this society. The rest of the children grow up away from parents. Everyone sends their children to “school”. What is school? What is education? Do you actually receive an education from school? Krishnamurti has a few things to say about it. Namely, it is not in school.

If a child grows up along their parents, what will be of them?

If a child grows up without their parents, what will become of them?

How about we extend this distance further. Let us remove children from their parents, as the Americans did to the American Indians. That may provide them with a better education.

How about we take American children and send them to school in China, without their parents. That may educate them.

Why do things half-heartedly, and send children to school only half a day. Simply have them spend 24/7 away from parents. Remove the father and mother completely, and they will grow up as the son and daughter of a society. In this brave new world, they would not have to worry about propaganda. Women may sleep with a new man each and every day too. Every man will get to sample all the fruits of his desires with minimal effort. Like having a global buffet for men. Many women may find this appealing, and many men as well.

Having considered it all, I do think that proximity and distance matters a lot. Proximity and distance to parents versus external propaganda. But then I cannot help but think parents are propaganda themselves. Although, I am aware of much of what I do to influence my own children, I also wonder which part of my influence I am not aware of. Conscious of it or not, I am my own type of propaganda too, am I not.

But between my propaganda and the white man’s propaganda. I do think my own son will fare better with my propaganda. Less he be accused of being a Chinese spy and not know why. Better to grow up prepared for this war, than to walk into a gun fight without a gun. Was that LKY who said that? I cannot recall which propaganda gave me this idea. Maybe he said he can go into a dark alley with another man, and come out of it alive. In either case, a proper education properly prepares a human for the world he lives in. The standard American K12, and post graduate is just completely unprepared for this world. This world where white men should lead the world, based on past glories and false promises. Where Asian men must be second class. This propaganda is not appropriate for an Asian child. It should and it must be countered.