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• ootsootsoots 5y ago
  It would be nice if public education spent most of its time on relativity and network effects, logical fallacy, as part of the elementary school stage. Packaged for less developed emotional processors anyway. Exposing the technique of misinformation acts as an inoculant and reduces network effects of bad arguments: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0175799 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... For example; imo we live in a friendlier Soviet state, with state sanctioned limits (quotas) on millions of peoples agency via the lack of public will to focus on local issues, and focus on neoliberal economic agendas. In collusion with state power, billionaires live large on our effort and denigrate our frustration, as if they’re scientifically entitled to their figurative life of power, even though advertising and marketing have relied on government research into neuroscience and behavioral economics. Off topic from the original post but trying to make a point in a thread about propaganda. Peace.