How Propaganda Actually Works on Your Brain
Most people think propaganda is something that happens somewhere else. To less educated people. To people in authoritarian countries without free press or independent courts. To people who simply do not know any better.
That belief is itself a product of propaganda.
The uncomfortable truth is that propaganda does not require ignorance. It does not target stupidity. It targets the human brain, which operates the same way in every person regardless of education level, IQ, or political awareness. The vulnerabilities that propaganda exploits are not character flaws. They are features of cognition…
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