S0ck @ S0ck @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 7Joined 4 mo. ago
It’s clear that advertising has a lot of power to influence people’s choices, otherwise oligarchs wouldn’t burn so much money on it.
Marketing, advertising, etc. It's a science, a field of study. What is the goal? To make people buy things, ostensibly. How do they chose to do achieve that goal? Deep analysis of the human psyche and studying methods to manipulate them into taking intended actions.
Advertising is the science of psychological warfare.
When people don't know any better, we're all very much "monkey see monkey do".
A lot of us grew up with examples of the kinds of parents we don't want to be, not many of us grew up with good examples of the kind of parenting we would like to provide.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
They might not want people, they might want coders.
I still chose to blame the republicans.
No one ever just blames them directly in these conversations. It's always "blame the protest non-voters" or "blame the leftists" or whatever.
Just go directly to blaming the people who gleefully voted for it. Everything else is just infighting and stupid.
Democrats have made the current apparati too hard to qualify for with their means-testing.
I kind of doubt that democrats are the ones who MADE it too hard, but they definitely are the ones that preserve it's difficulty.
It's a downside of being educated and fascinated by what you've learned.