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They privatized it by passing technical propaganda research to universities who modeled it into behavioral economics, marketing, advertising. Social media is b
by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
They privatized it by passing technical propaganda research to universities who modeled it into behavioral economics, marketing, advertising.
Social media is built with such research in mind.
Society will never stop trying to wrap a big fuzzy one size fits all blanket around everyone’s thoughts. We intentionally manipulate biology that religion stumbled upon.
A philosophy of “oh well there is this separation of powers written down on paper” does not stop graft, nepotism. Tribalism is innate to human biology; words on paper don’t just shut our bodies innate traits off. Thinking a law prevents intentional propagandizing is quaint and naive. They just call the same behavior and mechanics “behavioral economics” and viola; it may have all the mechanics of propaganda, but trust us, it’s not propaganda.