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In a world where special interests all vie for the ability to manipulate the "accepted truth," we have those same special interests to thank for people's lack o

• NetStrikeForce 10y ago
  Of course propaganda works. Water is wet and all that. The problem is a worrying lack of critical thinking.
  • cookiecaper 10y ago
    Propaganda wouldn't work if people at large were able to think critically enough to counteract it. Most people implicitly trust whatever they've come to believe is authoritative. It's much more likely that someone will reject a truth from an untrusted source than an untruth, even a clear untruth, from a trusted source. This is always true at some level. There is so much data on everything that all of it cannot be considered and independently evaluated by each person; at some point you have to believe that someone else who knows more about this than you do has verified the claims.