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My choice: drop the strategy of keeping the population dumb and unable to realize it so they are easy to manipulate.

• usrn 5y ago
  This. We were taught in school to recognize and analyze propaganda, advertising, and PR. I'm not immune but sometimes it almost seems like it when I talk to other people.
  • sprucely 5y ago
    Who is we? YMMV, but any sort of emphasis on critical thinking wasn't my experience in an Arizona school district in the late eighties/early nineties. If such curriculum was available, the kids who took it were likely outliers in having influences to push them in that direction.
    • usrn 5y ago
      Yeah, I was homeschooled. It sounds to me like public schools actively discourage this kind of thing.