• rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    14 hours ago

    Given this technology of persuasion (advertising). A technology that is insanely powerful (so powerful that convincing literally everybody of literally anything is a power that is comfortably within our grasp). What would it look like if everybody was persuaded to believe some total bullshit?

    I mean what would it look like, to us, if we found ourselves in the midst of such a predicament?

    • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      We’re living in an age of demagoguery, I don’t know why you wouldn’t use that metaphor instead of the relatively harmless advertising, it’s much more important and you can look around and see what it’s like.