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And because it was the CCP, we'll never know if that news is state propaganda or truth... . He might have just been the honest fall guy who promoted too much s

And because it was the CCP, we'll never know if that news is state propaganda or truth... . He might have just been the honest fall guy who promoted too much social harmony to the detriment of his superiors lifestyles

behaveEc0n00 4y ago
The US relies on private propaganda to normalize attitudes to its goals. Given how chummy politicians and “journalists” and corporate owners are off camera it’s laughable to think there is a real separation of power. Our biology evolved for thousands of years before language was invented. To suggest our language influences our biology is nonsensical. Our biology influences language. Propaganda is all about setting a biological mood not embedding a specific chant. Media had been stoking the right moods until the internet enabled an unfiltered emotional meta-mind. They intentionally wrap news in titillating music and graphics. It’s all research based effort in the fields of behavioral economics, public relations, etc. An educated minority are leveraging that education against the majority to optimize for themselves. “Because that’s the history of our society!”
- upsidesinclude 4y ago
  For a time, propagandizing US citizens became illegal. We lost that in the Obama administration. Not that it would have mattered.... Language does certainly influence biology and vice versa. I agree we are living in precarious times and there's no benefit to promoting an equally opaque system built for an elite class
  - behaveEc0n00 4y ago
    Cable news has government officials on spewing government talking points all night. That’s government propaganda. Suuure it’s not “official” but wtf does that matter when it embeds itself in our inner monologues? Corporations that own cable news and are given all the money with no strings by the government; hardly an Obama era shift. Making it illegal is meaningless.

behaveEc0n00 4y ago

The US relies on private propaganda to normalize attitudes to its goals. Given how chummy politicians and “journalists” and corporate owners are off camera it’s laughable to think there is a real separation of power. Our biology evolved for thousands of years before language was invented. To suggest our language influences our biology is nonsensical. Our biology influences language. Propaganda is all about setting a biological mood not embedding a specific chant. Media had been stoking the right moods until the internet enabled an unfiltered emotional meta-mind. They intentionally wrap news in titillating music and graphics. It’s all research based effort in the fields of behavioral economics, public relations, etc. An educated minority are leveraging that education against the majority to optimize for themselves. “Because that’s the history of our society!”

upsidesinclude 4y ago
For a time, propagandizing US citizens became illegal. We lost that in the Obama administration. Not that it would have mattered.... Language does certainly influence biology and vice versa. I agree we are living in precarious times and there's no benefit to promoting an equally opaque system built for an elite class
- behaveEc0n00 4y ago
  Cable news has government officials on spewing government talking points all night. That’s government propaganda. Suuure it’s not “official” but wtf does that matter when it embeds itself in our inner monologues? Corporations that own cable news and are given all the money with no strings by the government; hardly an Obama era shift. Making it illegal is meaningless.