Comment on Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database

eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Marketing too… You look at the history of psychology and marketing and how it was bad with cable tv and magazines and politics as well in that era. But now we have our entire.lives tracked and psychological manipulation working on use basically constantly.

  The human story isn’t a genuine one anymore, the path of humanity is created artificially. Our own lives probably aren’t the natural lives we were meant to have. We are losing genuine humanity.

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Marketers / advertisers are corrupt psychologists (the competent ones anyway), or to use oldspeak propogandists. Some timeless words for consideration

    “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945

    “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945

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    • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gahh… It goes deeper!!

      I like the idea of calling advertisers corrupt psychologist.

      But I think it’s to the point even the psychology and academic industries get bought out. In a way almost like the prison system. I think we have reached a point people can go to school, get a career, and live the American dream, successfully in their eyes and in the eyes of America, without realizing in the end they are working for something that abuses honest humanity.

      I hate being OCD and going down these rabbit holes. I used to just settle with the idea 50% of anything is evil and leave it at that. But now it seems like the majority is either evil or completely owned/useless in terms of living for genuine humanity.

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