[ExI] us

[William Flynn Wallace]

Those near the border of skepticism and belief have a hard time when it
comes to their children.  Let them experience religion first hand in a
church?  Keep them away?  Let them know your doubt?  And so on.  Tough
decisions for the agnostic (though not for the hard bitten atheist).  bill w

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 5:42 PM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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:
>
>
> 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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