Propaganda's Influences on Us

For starters, you cannot deny that propaganda is found everywhere in our daily lives. Every single day, it shapes our decisions and our thoughts on countries and people all around the world.  Our class just finished watching a documentary about North Korea.  The documentary was supposed to show us both sides and let us decide who is telling the truth.  We see negative things in the news about North Korea all the time, but could all of it be true?  After watching the documentary I felt that we've been brainwashed.  However I felt it was this way for both parties.  I felt that everything was a lie; that there wasn't one piece of truth in any of it.  When they were showing the ways of North Korean people it seemed to be as if they were part of a dystopia that they believed was a utopia.  It showed children about the age of 5 singing songs that had been well practiced about how much they love their leader and how he takes care of them.  Do they even know who they'r singing about?  There were times when I felt each person they filmed had no way of coming up with their own thoughts because they'd been told what to believe for so long.  But then this made me think is that how some people think of us?  That we are just pieces in this one big lie? Maybe there is something we are all missing or maybe there is no truth.