(October 22, 2022 at 12:17 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: One should not underestimate the intelligence of “medium level of intelligence” just as one should not overestimate the goodness of “medium level of intelligence”. You think they are merely fooled. But they may simply be more malevolent, or sympathico with malevolence, than you are willing to continence.
Of course there is always this “human nature” element. But what I am saying is that propaganda works on this human nature element. Just like hypnosis, it will evoke you primal fears, your fear of the unknown, your aspirations for an earthly well-being, your most basic human emotions and than it combines it with some form of rationally acceptable belief like “anti-immigration policy” As an example I want to remind you of a F.N. (Marrie LePen’s party) propaganda picture that showed some middle aged French woman sleeping in her car with the slogan on top of it saying “…. Sleeps in her car while the government is spending money to house African Migrants”. And the journalists making the news where not able to identify this … who was sleeping in her car because she reportedly had no access to public housing.
So yes, it has to be there in the first place. But propaganda will find it, amplify it, turn it into a mob and use it for its own purpose (or that’s the main idea of the science behind it)
