No need for ideological and government ops (at least not yet), just a good misdirection of ideas from an unwitting person or grifter, that were decidedly purveyed around western liberal mass media, at face value or manipulated beyond originator's intent.

I don't wanna hear shit like "1984". Those were made with the intent to be blatantly anti-communist and pro-western

An example would include the Stanford prison experiments

It turns out that the cruelty exhibited by the guards was not spontaneous. On the contrary; the guards were coached beforehand by Zimbardo. And some of the prisoners have admitted that the distress they exhibited was faked.

(Note: lemme guess, someone gonna @ on how I'm ironically use pop culture to debunk pop culture. Yes, we do live in a society...)

Nonetheless, this study was one of many that solidified "human nature is inherently evil" sort of shticks...

  • SSJ2Marx
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    9 months ago

    The idea that handcrafted goods are superior to factory-made ones. In our society this perception is primarily driven by two things: that cheap goods are always factory made (because it simply isn't economical to handcraft IKEA-tier furniture), and that hand-crafted goods often have to justify their increased price by being luxury items (since luxury items' prices are a lot less tied to their inputs than other classes of commodities). Something made by hand isn't necessarily better than something made by a machine, but there's certainly a recurring idea that it is in pop culture.

      • SSJ2Marx
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        9 months ago

        I think DIY is something that's always been with us. Heinlein was right about exactly one thing: specialization is for insects.