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>The headline might as well as be mass propaganda techniques no longer working. HALP! i read the opposite: the propaganda technology known as "clickbait" has b
by cryoshon 10y ago
>The headline might as well as be mass propaganda techniques no longer working. HALP!
i read the opposite: the propaganda technology known as "clickbait" has become so widely disseminated that truth or factual information can't compete because it doesn't translate as smoothly.
the truth and the facts are always a bit less streamlined, and are always presented in a slightly more complex way-- slightly more cognitively expensive. the human mind takes the easy path whenever it can.
- devoply 10y agoHuman brain is easily hijacked by memes, propagandists have been doing it for a century, now the masses are doing it too -- and they are mad (are the masses mad? or the propagandists? why not both? what's the truth? i don't know!). Richard Dawkins on memes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRggkkAIC5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRggkkAIC5A For instance this meme sunk Howard Dean's campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwkNnMrsx7Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwkNnMrsx7Q Dan Quayle and the potato incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdqbi66oNuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdqbi66oNuI