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>I wager that it is pretty trivial to get most people to believe in anything and especially easy to make people think fringe opinions are actually widespread an
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>I wager that it is pretty trivial to get most people to believe in anything and especially easy to make people think fringe opinions are actually widespread and commonplace.
I'd wager you can find plenty of examples of that on HN.
- hnick 7y agoIt's been linked before on HN but The Century of the Self is very eye-opening in this regard and available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s Apparently the very first act of Public Relations was in renaming Propaganda to Public Relations.