Psychologists [and Watchmen mock newsreel] Demo Propaganda
Psychologists have simultaneously discovered that synchronised behaviour (like, say… marching in step) increases loyalty, and that after being shown propagandistic images, people’s emotional profiles are changed. It’s something I’ve always noticed — people are like mirrors. From the article…
Interest in the idea of a herd mentality has been renewed by work into mirror neurons – cells that fire when we perform an action or watch someone perform a similar action. It suggests that our brains are geared to mimic our peers. “We are set up for ‘auto-copy’.”
Of course, once you think of it this way, you realise that there are extraordinarily positive consequences that flow from setting everyone’s copybit to true-by-default. Education, for example. Traffic (especially for ants). Even basic human empathy itself is probably impossible without this population-wide bitflip. Our susceptibility to propagandistic demonising would be, then, just an unfortunate eddy where this instinct gets turns around on itself, stops simulating the world as it is, and starts dissimilating into a vortex of self-confirmation. Which leads to the obvious conclusion:
If you are a natural propagandist, what you need to do is to aim yourself at a pre-existing vortex of self-confirmation.
This explains Fox News, and everybody who works for Fox News.
It also explains Zack Snyder…
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