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I see a lot of US psyops and I'm an American. That is even more disturbing IMO. I'd expect it from a foreign nation but not my own country. Also, why can't we j

I see a lot of US psyops and I'm an American. That is even more disturbing IMO. I'd expect it from a foreign nation but not my own country. Also, why can't we just make education about foreign influence part of our curriculum and national discussion. Why do we have to ban things like speech to protect people? That is borderline just becoming China-like in itself.

sgu999 4y ago
Critical thinking would be a good start... but TikTok also targets a very young and immature audience that is already protected from many other things by rules.
- encryptluks2 4y ago
  In public elementary school here in the US they literally taught me indoctrination everyday by doing cult like rituals and allegiance to a cloth and history that whitewashed the crimes. How are young people in America supposed to be taught to think freely when they are shunned for thinking outside of the American way?
  - SuoDuanDao 4y ago
    There's a golden mean between insufficient patriotism to defend your kin domain from an outsider whose victory would be genuinely worse than the current status quo, and insufficient self-criticism to prevent your kin domain from becoming worse than the current status quo through inertia. Navigating that kind of dichotomy can be learned through practice, I think the challenge in the US in particular is that the two political parties so associate the other one with one of the unhealthy extremes that the center has trouble holding.
  - cscurmudgeon 4y ago
    Have you seen what happens in China *today*? https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/30/chinese-communist-party-han-baby-boom-sterilization-ethnic-minorities/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/30/chinese-communist-party... Back to topic: Applying critical thinking, you can be patriotic and a critical thinker. You can love a country and still be a critical thinker. Just like you can love a person but be aware of their flaws.

sgu999 4y ago

Critical thinking would be a good start... but TikTok also targets a very young and immature audience that is already protected from many other things by rules.

encryptluks2 4y ago
In public elementary school here in the US they literally taught me indoctrination everyday by doing cult like rituals and allegiance to a cloth and history that whitewashed the crimes. How are young people in America supposed to be taught to think freely when they are shunned for thinking outside of the American way?
- SuoDuanDao 4y ago
  There's a golden mean between insufficient patriotism to defend your kin domain from an outsider whose victory would be genuinely worse than the current status quo, and insufficient self-criticism to prevent your kin domain from becoming worse than the current status quo through inertia. Navigating that kind of dichotomy can be learned through practice, I think the challenge in the US in particular is that the two political parties so associate the other one with one of the unhealthy extremes that the center has trouble holding.
- cscurmudgeon 4y ago
  Have you seen what happens in China *today*? https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/30/chinese-communist-party-han-baby-boom-sterilization-ethnic-minorities/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/30/chinese-communist-party... Back to topic: Applying critical thinking, you can be patriotic and a critical thinker. You can love a country and still be a critical thinker. Just like you can love a person but be aware of their flaws.