I suspect this can be expanded to "ideas don't work that way" - information effects dominate http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/ …
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brainwashing and idea contagion are basically leftover magical ideas - information and especially common knowledge effects are real causes
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in neighbor-on-neighbor genocides there's a clear common knowledge change, "it's now ok to kill outgroup and take their stuff"
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génocidaires therefore know that regular people won't (altruistically) punish them for their atrocities
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hm, not directly related, but the way that beer ad works is that the bottle is literally the only interesting thing in it
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the composition makes your gaze scan it in a very specific way and (theorizing here) form a pseudosentence in your mind
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and re the main thesis of that, forgot where the I read about it, but it's a classic keynesian beauty contest
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hey sup, once i drunk coke in ice in a dusty polish restaurant & felt the promise of the new world, and ever since then...
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i've drunk coke. that moment gave me a way to enjoy it. maybe that is what the corona ad is doing, giving a way to enjoy it.
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