Let's hope this spreads
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I used to watch a lot as a kid, but I always knew how full of shit and manipulative it was. Starting with ads from long before I knew anything about politics.
A healthy and well-raised person can watch as much of anything as they want without being influenced. People try to categorize new information based on instinct and feels too much, instead of just letting it sit.
"Oh, I've seen/heard/read about this thing but haven't verified it and will keep an open mind while looking for evidence in both directions." ^ What should be. School indoctrinates the polar opposite.
Great post.
Not sure it's my place, but if you want to make it even better trying to find and cite a research paper on the topics would help immensely (I need to do this more, memo to self).
Both for readers who are interested, and for increasing the quality of decentralized information flow. If one person digs up good sources and adds them thousands of people will save that work/time/energy for other things.
The more we cite and the better we argue the more people will stop seeing us as crazy conspiracy theorists and realize that this is much closer to science than anything they've ever seen on the media. It will also condition people into internalizing the necessity for high-quality and careful verification, make them more inquisitive, imaginative and creative etc.
^ This is what I love about this place. Let's show the world how it's done in the age of information.
We're just one and a half step away from returning God's heavenly kingdom to earth.
This may be the study of monkeys learning from watching TV that was mentioned.
https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/wild-monkeys-learn-by-watching-tv/
Maybe that's a good thing that reality TV didn't exist when I was little and I knew everything I was watching was fantasy to begin with.