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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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Bernays figured this out a century ago. And Goebbels then used it with sickening effectiveness.
I'm 3/4 through Andersen's
Fantasyland, and as amusing and enlightening as it might be, it's also a bit predictable. You've seen it all before. The myths, the narratives, the revisions.
People believe what they want to believe, doubt what they don't, and these behaviors reinforce one another.
It's damn hard not to be tribal.
