I’m doing something a bit different this week because I want to talk about the power of words and images to create monsters, both in fiction and in real life. I want to talk an about propaganda. I write a great deal about monsters on this substack. Besides a deep love for mythology, folklore and monsters, I do this is because I am fascinated about the type of monsters different cultures choose to create and how and why they turn certain groups of people into monsters. When we are afraid, it seems we prefer a black and white, good versus evil story even when it is a lie. We especially prefer that story in our real-life conflicts. We want to be the hero, and we want our opponent to be the monster. I am amazing by how words and images can transform a completely normal, relatable living being into something grotesque and horrible, something to be feared, hated, and exterminated. A different combination of words and images can then turn that same being into something god-like, pure, and he…