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"It’s literally fiction that does a pretty dam good job illustrating real situations" - lolol imagine saying this, in 2025.
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@sickburnbro The normie brain has zero defense against propaganda, they can't go against it as long as it is competently made. It's a blessing that our enemies insist on making their products disgusting and brown, they can't help but eventually become completely unappealing because they strive to destroy beauty.
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@MeBigbrain I don't think it's quite that - I think our regime *specifically* beats any defenses people have out of them. People *used* to be much more skeptical.
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@MeBigbrain like in school - it's not the right answer that matters. it's the one that is on the teacher's paper. And you're taught "just put down what teacher wants"
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I'd rather some moral fantasy fiction, like LotR, be treated as a reality than this evil propaganda.
Actually, speaking of the Inklings and early 20th century fantasy, C.S. Lewis wrote about this, I forgot where exactly, that the most dangerous kind of fantasy was the one that seems "realistic" to people, like a story of a poor man suddenly achieving millions in wealth through immoral means like the lottery.
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Found it:
“The fairy tale is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature that children could read gives them less of a false impression. I think what profess to be realistic stories for children are far more likely to deceive them. I never expected the real world to be like the fairy tales. I think that I did expect school to be like the school stories. The fantasies did not deceive me: the school stories did. All stories in which children have adventures and successes which are possible, in the sense that they do not break the laws of nature, but almost infinitely improbable, are in more danger than the fairy tales of raising false expectations…
This distinction holds for adult reading too. The dangerous fantasy is always superficially realistic. The real victim of wishful reverie does not batten on the Odyssey, The Tempest, or The Worm Ouroboros: he (or she) prefers stories about millionaires, irresistible beauties, posh hotels, palm beaches and bedroom scenes—things that really might happen, that ought to happen, that would have happened if the reader had had a fair chance. For, as I say, there are two kinds of longing. The one is an askesis, a spiritual exercise, and the other is a disease.”
― C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
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@pepsi_man rev tried to talk to them like an adult
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>clinical and research master's degrees
Okay. Publish your data.
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@pepsi_man his reward?
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@MeBigbrain @sickburnbro We subconsciously believe what we see is real, even if we consciously know it's fiction. Brainwashing is as easy as putting actors on a screen.
https://poa.st/objects/69169e79-69f1-43ae-9439-587ad9737eb4
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@Type_Other @MeBigbrain indeed, this is the danger of the visual medium.
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@MeBigbrain @Type_Other I think the most critical thing here is how allegory of the cave is THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD
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@MeBigbrain @sickburnbro It does heavily shape the minds of normies. They will always be the majority of the population
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@Arkana @MeBigbrain on the other side is the claim that "only the educated can believe something so stupid"
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