• Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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    If you say “capitalism sucks”, you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.

    Explaining socialism without mentioning scare words

    Extending your metaphor, this is what your average American’s brain looks like. There is a lot of propaganda and social conditioning working against you here.

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      Extending even farther, there’s nothing especially different about the American brain. Propaganda and social conditioning are natural to human cognitive bias and on the other side of the coin is our ability to learn.

      Now the environment of conditioning and propaganda may be another story.