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Zak Stein; Propaganda and education, psychological war and the CIA

The Vance Crowe Podcast

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I'm So Like Nudging Through Micro Targeted Advertising

I'm so like nudging through micro targeted advertising. It's an example of that word's like they're precisely getting you write where they know they can, because they've studied youand they're there. And if f your goal is to optimize getting people to do stuff, then there's no rout other than to just nudge and basically subtly coerce. Now, over coercion is violence, and so it's fit, you kno propagate o bleeds into a form of psychological violence. In the most direct contexts um, the recourse is ultimately to violence. So that's another factor, you know, the presence of the thought terminating cliche in the creating of these contexts of where

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