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[Tara Maya]

I imagine it's a Red Queen's arms race between the persuaders and the skeptics--made more difficult that we each play both roles at different times in our lives.

Tara Maya

> On Nov 8, 2022, at 8:07 AM, BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Heh!  :)   Western societies live in an environment of hidden
> persuaders. Billions spent on advertising persuasion, government
> propaganda, religious cults indoctrinating members, social media
> influencers, etc. It is so prevalent that we don't even notice it.
> Like a fish asking, "What is this water that you talk about?".
> The Chinese have large camps to indoctrinate Uyghurs.
> None of this would be done if persuasion didn't work.
> Unfortunately it works far too well.

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