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Currents 044: Zak Stein on Propaganda and the Information War

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The Difference Between Education and Propaganda

The educator wants you to fully have your wits about you so that you can fully work on the problems at hand. The propagandasit would actually prefer you to be maleable and susceptible and not thinking clearly and emotionally manipulable. This is part of the attention capture economy, where you're in an addictive feedback loop with the screen,. Youre trancing out, and youre watching vidia sthat have speed of cut. Rit wishes to say, the editing in the videois so dense with information that you're put into a state of sensory overwhelm.

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