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What do you think psych majors do when they want to make a lot of money?
They go into marketing.
Marketing is literally just the corporate wing of "you are not immune to propoganda."
Modern, psychology based propoganda techniques were originally pioneered for marketing purposes, then later adapted to politics.
Look up Freud's nephew, Eddie Bernays (sp?), and how he basically co-opted the Suffragette movement in the US to establish cigarettes as 'Torches of Freedom', thus making it hip, rebellious, and progressive for women to smoke, where previously this was largely seen as unwomanly behavior.
Net result?
Tobacco companies now have a whole new market demo to play with, sell to.
... Corporations have had over 100 years of practice at this, and now, they have an actually unimaginable amount of data, from our social media-ized digital age to become exceedingly efficient at pushing what they want.
You think its an accident that various content 'pipelines' exist on video platforms?
That corpo social media in general promotes anger and division in the general populace?
That shortform video social media actually does rot your brain, cause an actual biological addiction, destroy your attention span and ability to focus?
No. They know it does all these things, in astounding detail, with incredible levels of statistical certainty. Tiktok and Facebook definitely have been sued for knowing that they are doing this, ... their whole marketing business model based on statistical profiling models requires them to know this, theres no way they could have the data and algos they do and not know this.
They're engineering consumers' brains into what they want, what they can make money selling to.
We basically already live in the Matrix: It's called omnipresent advertising.
oh trust me, i know it. adhd/autism combo...ads crafted over centuries to grab your attention are pretty much impossible for me to ignore and i hate it
Well then, I guess you would agree with me that We Are Not Their Kind Of People.