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I think the most effective propaganda message in the United States has convinced most subjects that they are subversive rebel free-thinkers with exclusive access to secret knowledge. (hexbear.net)

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The "secret knowledge" being whatever they think they know that the "sheeple/npcs/bots/libs/conservatives/commies" don't.

It's a hell of a trick: society-wide Main Character Syndrome.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I want to emphasize that the examples I gave were about intensified individualist ideology expressed sociopolitically, even economically by extension because of pushback and hostility against even the possibility of change. Not necessarily unique, but more.

I don't think analysis can go very far if the primary point is "this happens everywhere" with the implication that it happens nearly equally everywhere which I disagree with, especially if that's supposed to be the end of discussion.