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Its really worth a watch for the narrative that it spins, and gives a really critical eye to mass media and the intellectual underpinnings of manufacturing of c
by taurath 4y ago
Its really worth a watch for the narrative that it spins, and gives a really critical eye to mass media and the intellectual underpinnings of manufacturing of consent.
That said its hard to agree with the through-line of a sort of malevolence, drawing almost a direct line between Goebbels and Tide ads. Still, anything that makes one think critically about the impact of advertising and propaganda has some value
- dtagames 4y agoMy thoughts exactly. The attempt to "draw a line" between all these practices over decades seems like a failure. It is clear, however, that businesses and governments have continued used these same ideas in various forms and with various kinds of spin in order to goad people into buying products and ideas. I thought it was interesting that the same ideas were repackaged and relabeled numerous times, often even flipped on their heads, and then reused by a new, competing political party or product.