@Dreznicagoat @caitoz @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan The difficulty isn't in motivating people to fight it who don't see themselves as affected to fight it, it comes from the fact this propaganda only exists because it's repeating to people what they've already decided to believe.
@uncle_authority @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan I myself know for a fact that I used to believe western propaganda not because I wanted to but because I was tricked. And I didn't stop believing it because my material conditions got worse, I stopped believing it because I finally got the time to research and learn the truth.
@caitoz @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan Right. You actively decided to believe something else. Other people decide the opposite and go drop crocodile tears over Yeonmi Park performances at Rothbardapalooza or wherever.
@caitoz @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan For me just actually observing how westerners, at least in the states, take in information about China and the DPRK disproves the "unthinking sheeple" narratives. They go out of their way to deliberately filter anything that doesn't fit the narrative they prefer.
@uncle_authority @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan I see that as more due to the fact that all people everywhere are psychologically predisposed toward protecting their worldview, whatever it is, because that's how our brains are wired. x.com/oatmeal/status…
@uncle_authority @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan I see that as more due to the fact that all people everywhere are psychologically predisposed toward protecting their worldview, whatever it is, because that's how our brains are wired. x.com/oatmeal/status…
@GonnaCj @uncle_authority @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan You're arguing with a basic fact that researchers have discovered about human psychology as though it's just my philosophical opinion or something. That people have a tendency doesn't mean it can't be overridden by material conditions or other circumstances at times.
@caitoz @GonnaCj @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan The bourgeois researchers funded by grant money from bourgeois organizations fueled by bourgeois hegemony to meet bourgeois ends discovered the "basic fact" about human psychology that they're really dumb sheeple that can't form thoughts that aren't installed by the ruling class?
@uncle_authority @GonnaCj @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan No idea how you're making that feel like a logical response to anything that's being said here.
@caitoz @GonnaCj @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan I'm trying to figure out exactly what IS being said here
@uncle_authority @GonnaCj @Dreznicagoat @smellbeard @bidetmarxman @RodericDay @__ulaan Usually people ask questions when that happens.