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Of course propaganda works. Water is wet and all that. The problem is a worrying lack of critical thinking.
by NetStrikeForce 10y ago
Of course propaganda works. Water is wet and all that.
The problem is a worrying lack of critical thinking.
- cookiecaper 10y agoPropaganda 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.