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Originally Posted by hcap
I am getting concerned. Paranoia or not, swaying mass opinion has become a fine art/science. Madison avenue has grown up in the electronic age. From the fledgling original ad campaign to convince woman to smoke cigarettes(Chesterfields) back in the 20'ss, to Hitler adapting adverrtisig as propaganda.
Today behavioral psychology although cude and more subtle subliminal cues direct our attention in very sophisticated ways. Ultimately powers with the big supercomputers and advances in behavioral studies have the advantage nany times over.
Soon advances in quantum computing will multiply ability to "Manufacte Consent". A topic covered by
I have referebced 1984 a few times. It may be coming. Now we have a very dumbed down "big brother", but that may not always be the case. Something to worry about.
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Well we are either gonna get a lot of things wrong before we get them right or we'll wind up in Dystopia...
As a society our level of education/awareness has never been further removed from the massive amount of knowledge at our fingertips.
These things take time to catch up.
