The Cartoon:

The Ducktators 

2:20 "He's a smart fellow with brains... like me!" The most passionate followers of Hitler

Notice that even people caught up in Propaganda, who we know to be deluded because of an excessive amount of verifiable evidence, see themselves as smart. Such aphorisms as 'pride in intelligence blocks ability to reason' etc. doesn't work because they are blinded by their own ego-self, i.e. they don't like to see the truth about themselves or that which they love because their self-esteem is tied up in those beliefs.

How war and oil combined together....

Propaganda Cartoon: Destination Earth (1956)In this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great.

This is the background that our parents parents lived in. Oil wasn't a welfare queen as it is now getting millions in taxpayer financed subsidies but an ally to economic greatness (this was BEFORE Big Oil began sucking at the teat of the taxpayer).

After all these decades of 'oil is our saviour' campaigns, which began with good intentions, it's now one of our cultural blindspots. Politicians at Federal and Local levels get caught up in helping big oil as that's what their parents did, so that's what they are doing. It's become a tradition. No matter what new technologies, more appropriate to our time and new generations, comes along.

Blurred lines is the end result of this sort of propaganda

{This image is edited from "Capitalism Visualized"  - I found the link to the above image from BillMoyers.com (at the bottom of the page of Bill Moyers Interview of David Stockman on "Crony Capitalism") }