Yup. All of Eric Hoffer's 'The True Believer' (1951) is applicable to Trump, but this bit is particularly salient.
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this is called 'playing to one's priors' -- the oldest, most effective marketing/propaganda trick in the book. cc
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Point is you can't create those priors. You can only wait for them, and they might never arrive, leaving your bid for power stillborn.
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any prior can be exploited multiple ways -- different stories & different outcomes possible for same prior. (cont'd)
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Last thing, I think that schools should teach 'propaganda-making' -- not only useful skill, but also helps defend oneself too.
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Not sure it belongs in basic literacy like math/read/write. One of those adverse selection fields. Right (or wrong) people select in
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plenty of adverse selection, fo' sure -- but in my mind, knowing the dark patterns outweighs risks. Similar to learning to fight.
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