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The argument you're making is common and always boils down to this belief: "most people are too stupid to discern the truth" History shows this to belief to be
by wavepruner 6y ago
The argument you're making is common and always boils down to this belief: "most people are too stupid to discern the truth"
History shows this to belief to be incorrect, and instead shows that any central power holding this belief will eventually commit terrible crimes against humanity.
A small group of "intelligent" people can not possibly out-compute billions of humans' brain processing power.
- owlbynight 6y agoI don't think people are too stupid to discern the truth. I think a lot of people are too overwhelmed by the minutia of navigating their own stressful lives to handle a deluge of lies designed by expert propagandists to be easier and more appealing for them to consume than the truth. The difference is that these aren't leaflets being dropped from the sky on a village of a few hundred people. These lies that span our entire country and they are coming from people that have access to analytical data which allows them to observe how their lie is being received so that they can refine their messaging immediately. There has never been a propaganda delivery system like this before. History isn't going to be useful here.
- antepodius 6y agoWhat makes you so sure your mind hasn't been pwned in an analogous way targeted towards smarter/more sophisticated demographics? A priori, I would expect more educated people to be more easily controlled/brainwashed; that's what the original point of education was- to inclcate a certain ideology/worldview. The people on facebook get weak waves of brainwashing targeted via algorithm; people in universities get a more powerful version of the same.