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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Well, in essence, propaganda is advertising. And advertising leans on satisfying perceived need.

    So if I’m selling you shoes it’s to satisfy your physiological, social, or self-fulfilment order need. Shoes are functional, make you cool, or make a statement.

    Propaganda is fulfilling some need to be effective - probably fear based in the social, safety, or belongingness orders, and carried via viral channels like word of mouth or social (viral).

    I haven’t really thought about it too much but it’s just a communication or a reinforced message; it’s just advertising. Think about it that way.

    And with regard to Russia, they are all ‘fear the West’ and ‘national pride’ driven, compounded over 3-4 generations. It would be such an easy spin.



  • I’m not. I’m aware of how selfish it is but something in my system of belief that I have (undefined? spiritual? no idea?) says that when I’m dead, I should be ALL dead.

    Like, if there’s any kind of afterlife, will leaving a functioning part me behind hold up the transition? This even sounds fucked up to me because I’m 100% not religious at all.

    I would just prefer all of me to be dead or all of me to be alive. Not fractions of both at the same time.