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You -- fallible you! -- are not immune to propaganda. Being able to understand the ulterior motives at play in advertising and PR more broadly does not absolve
by uoaei 5y ago
You -- fallible you! -- are not immune to propaganda.
Being able to understand the ulterior motives at play in advertising and PR more broadly does not absolve you of being caught under the spell. I had trouble reconciling this for a while after getting turned on to media criticism outlets, e.g. Citations Needed podcast[1]. But it is important to stay humble and remember that you are still a bag of electrified proteins that reacts essentially the same as other bags of electrified proteins, and so are subject to essentially the same forces.
[1] https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/
- 0x4d464d48 5y agoManipulators tell you how special, wonderful, deserving and smart you are. The socially conscious tell you how weak, falliable, unspecial and prone to folly you are. The socially conscious have a really, really tough sell. At worst it becomes an exercise in catering to someone's pride in being "more woke" than those other dullards. Robert Greene really hammered the point home in his opus "The Laws of Human Nature". People, all of us, need to cater to our vanity. We aren't well equiped to accept the idea that we can do stupid things or even just be stupid. It's far easier to fool a person than to convince a person they've been fooled. The great struggle of our time isn't telling truth to power it's telling truth to our own communities...