Also as many have pointed out myself included, propaganda is a hell of a power multiplayer for support. Plenty of decent folks have been propagandized for sometimes decades or generations, this means that as a baseline their perception of reality is warped at best absolutely rat fucked at worst. As someone who broke out of that particular spiral due to my own historical literacy and my abject fucking hatred for most so called authorities, well it’s a rather hard thing to free oneself from especially in say rural Idaho or Arizona for example.
The upside is that propaganda only really works when people don’t think they are being propagandized to, this means that if the propagandists push back too much their control will snap. It’s a lot like religious conversation the easiest way to convert someone is subtly, I should know I somehow made a fucked up synchronous thing from my kins folk traditions and Norse neo-patanism and converted myself to it.
Also as many have pointed out myself included, propaganda is a hell of a power multiplayer for support. Plenty of decent folks have been propagandized for sometimes decades or generations, this means that as a baseline their perception of reality is warped at best absolutely rat fucked at worst. As someone who broke out of that particular spiral due to my own historical literacy and my abject fucking hatred for most so called authorities, well it’s a rather hard thing to free oneself from especially in say rural Idaho or Arizona for example.
The upside is that propaganda only really works when people don’t think they are being propagandized to, this means that if the propagandists push back too much their control will snap. It’s a lot like religious conversation the easiest way to convert someone is subtly, I should know I somehow made a fucked up synchronous thing from my kins folk traditions and Norse neo-patanism and converted myself to it.