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This is intriguing. Assuming more research confirms this effect, I'd go so far as to say it should be taught in schools and should be a standard part of everyon
by adrianmonk 7y ago
This is intriguing. Assuming more research confirms this effect, I'd go so far as to say it should be taught in schools and should be a standard part of everyone's education.
Imagine a society where everyone has a stronger resistance to disinformation. It seems like it could only be a good thing.
- Swizec 7y agoBut then how will you build societal cohesion through propaganda? Could be a double-edged sword
- goodrobotiswear 7y agoWe dont need propaganda to stop people from fighting with each other. Diversity is a strength.
- Gabriel_Martin 7y agoAnd yet some contend otherwise. It would be a great presidential debate question, fill in the blank: Diversity is _______
- bilbo0s 7y ago>Diversity is _______... ...a fact. Information leading people to, say, shoot up synagogues or churches in a misplaced struggle against that fact based reality is likely disinformation. But my view is a lot more based on pragmatism than most.
- peteretep 7y ago> It would be a great presidential debate question No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet!
- bongobongo 7y agoRelying on propaganda for social stability is a recipe for authoritarianism.
- Swizec 7y agoYou sure? American society is full of propaganda and yet it doesn’t feel very authoritarian to me ...
- pault 7y agoOne could make the argument that the US of today is far more authoritarian than it was 100 years ago before the concept of propaganda was industrialized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
- bilbo0s 7y agoEveryone relies on propaganda, authoritarian or not.
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- Haga 7y agoYes, dare to dream of a new human, a better human, a socialist human. Those who fail to update from legacy hardware, those of course would have to be guided by a elite, a selected view, a Avantgarde, a party. Those whorresist this group, regressive, would need to be separated, thought a lesson, in camps way up north. To still have this dream, after all that happened, makes the dreamer a proofs of its impossibility. You can hack, but you can't redesign. We don't have that kind of time.