Is everything propaganda?

I know this isn't Saturday (my "politics" day) and that I usually refrain from posting on Sundays but some things in the news the past several days built up a banging in my head that wouldn't go away. I suppose I could have just dampened the sound with copious amounts of alcohol, turned off the TV (except for watching the seemingly endless stored programs I missed while on my recent travels), and avoided perusing the news on the Internet. But I couldn't do that. I am masochistic in that way. And then this morning, a friend sends me an email with a link to a blog, the National Juggernaut, and to the following post on it. I took the liberty to embed, as the blog author did, this cartoon from YouTube because I thought it a simple but informative peek at what I grew up with.

Contrast it to the cartoons your child watches today. Consider whether it or the modern cartoons are teaching us anything. Muse about whether we are shaped by our environment (political and social) or whether we develop our view of that environment independently.

I apologize for its length. It is a tad over 9 minutes long. But it's worth the watch, I think.

You know, I miss this style of animation.