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"Instead of trying to fight propaganda with education we should disguise education as easy to digest propaganda." How is this different from what we are alread
by jerf 7y ago
"Instead of trying to fight propaganda with education we should disguise education as easy to digest propaganda."
How is this different from what we are already doing?
I do not just mean that as mindless snark. There's a selection effect, where children can only handle even more radically simplified versions of reality than even our feeble adult minds can handle, so by necessity, it's already been processed down to that level because nothing else would stick even a little. A common example is "The civil war was caused by slavery", which gets mocked, but it's not like there's any explanation you can fit into a middle-school textbook that isn't just as simplified and loaded with the biases of the simplifier. (Which themselves are the result of the bias-loaded simplifications that they were themselves fed....)