I’ve been reading a lot on propaganda lately because I feel like I don’t understand it well enough. But this quote struck me because it describes vast swaths of the most visible participants in The Discourse (TM).https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1188540590461464581 …
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If you’re writing to reinforce the beliefs of believers rather than convert anyone else, it’s extraordinarily easy to accrete disconnected facts as...orbital debris-like armor.
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And at this point, after years of sustained dis/mis-information and stoked animosity, the baseline level of believed bullshit is rising. The conditioned levels are far from symmetric but everything seems to demand more skepticism at a time when everyone is suspending disbelief.
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