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[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yep.

A bunch of words expanding the known phenomenon of: It's far easier to lie to someone than to convince them that they have been lied to.

Once information is taken in, we naturally seek out more information which confirms the information we already have so as to build a coherent worldview. If the initial information we received is false, then we are naturally going to gravitate toward the information which agrees with that initial information, and a whole false worldview will result. Getting people to go back and reject the foundational falsehoods on which the whole edifice rests is extraordinarily difficult. Propaganda depends on this effect and manipulates it to perfection.

Good analysis.

[–]EddieC 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Caitoz is a mind gatekeeper
 

[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think that few people know how far the propaganda is going.

It is amplified by the bias of the people, and that is often set by publications that prepared us for certain events. This bias is also amplified by the echo-chamber of certain groups of people. I often see scientific publications that prepare the scientists to accept a certain conclusion, before even a single thing happened. When a lot of money is involved, I see many variations of publications with prepared conclusions. So people get used to it, and accept it as truth.

This same bias programming is also overly active in war propaganda. Opponents are no longer considered humans, and their points of view demonized. This same war propaganda was also visible during the covid-scam. And some political parties also engage in war-style propaganda.

The propaganda can even go a step further, where you get mass-formation, or even mass-hypnosis. With mass-hypnosis people do not even know what is real anymore, and will kill themselves and their own children for the faith. We also saw this with the experimental mRNA-injections. People were begging for a clot-shot.

Veritasium is usually spewing propaganda, because he is a communicator repeating the "consensus" science. Not a good scientist that considers things in different ways. Most "consensus" science is just something that people got used to without really thinking.
The positive part of his videos is that he gets to some weird questions sometimes. And these weird things can become "challenges". With these challenges, you can see that many "top" scientists are actually very very biased. Experts are not very good at understanding new things, because they are stuck in one way of thinking. His propeller-on-a-car challenge showed that most did not understand how energy can be converted. And his electricity-through-a-long-cable showed that most people do not understand antennas. His fly-wheel-challenge and weird-rotating-object-in-space were presented as mysteries, while it is very simple mechanical physics (momentum is conserved). It is cringing to watch sometimes.

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[–]Pomegrenade708 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is easy to make propaganda work because people, in a lot of cases refuse to believe that they have been lied to.