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/ …
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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I had that on my mind after readinghttp://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/ …
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100th monkey phenomenon & spooky collective conscious theories VS. actual landscape of information spread in social networks.
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