The propaganda problem can also be the solution.

.Propaganda, one of the many ways of altering opinions. Generally speaking, though time propaganda has been used to alter the social platform to favor a more desirable outcome. The anti-tobacco slogans that have been popping up lately, the political mud-slinging, health-related lifestyle choices, job-market advice, and advertisements; lately the media seems slewn with propaganda of some form or another. 
.There is, however, a burning question that begs to be answered. The traditional propaganda, the kind that encourages an entire nation to recognize a social flaw and rise up to change it, where has it gone? World War II saw lots of propaganda about women in the work-force. The depression saw union propaganda. Is our generation's social problem to fix being drown out by profiteers and advertisements?
.It's an exploited fact that values and principles when instilled young always shape what is to come. What are the values we are teaching our youth? There seems to be a lot of hype about the value of being celebrity. Idol is a propaganda machine in its own rite with greater voter turn-outs than elections. The judicial system and medical fields, education and social problems like poverty, hunger, water shortage all seem to be labeled negatively by all the social branding going on.
. It's it time for a change? If propaganda can find a way  to make boot-leggers and pop stars criminalized and idolized, why can't it be used to encourage a failing nation to begin the long and arduous task of recovery necessary?  Maybe this is my own propaganda talking, it certainly is my opinion: as a nation in shambles and with no future, it is high time we focus our propaganda towards the long-term truism goals. If that goal is economic dominance in the world stage, fine, start getting our kids to idolize the engineers and scientific problem-solvers. If the goal is to fill the hero/saviour role, then lets work on having a higher concentration of doctors, farmers and water technicians (like it or not we are going to run out of potable water).
.But really where is the propaganda to encourage our youth towards higher social goals and standards? I mean hell, I got out of college with an english degree and still have horrid grammar. Why don't we start to openly and overtly celebrate people who make the world a better, healthier, more sustainable and more profitable world instead of victimization and slanderization?

Propaganda, let's start using it to change what everyone around us does. Let's start working on the right mindset for the right future. Pick a value, write and share something positive about it. Make a motivational poster, something!