I'm not comparing the US school system to anything, just saying that the vast majority of people do not have the level of literacy skills necessary to recognize propaganda and deprogram themselves. Literacy isn't the only method of recognizing propaganda and deprogramming oneself, but it is a pretty darned important one in an atomized society where there all institutional pressure is working in favour of propaganda. My point is that the 30-40% estimate earlier in the thread is uncharitable to people.
Okay, I just see people attributing it to poor education a lot when... like the two most successful communist revolutions ever happened in countries where most people were illiterate peasants who thought the Czar/Emperor was ordained by God? Idk, as dumb as burgerbrains are I kinda thing a person who can read and has an internet connection should be a bit more capable than a cabbage farmer who can't count past 10
I'm not comparing the US school system to anything, just saying that the vast majority of people do not have the level of literacy skills necessary to recognize propaganda and deprogram themselves. Literacy isn't the only method of recognizing propaganda and deprogramming oneself, but it is a pretty darned important one in an atomized society where there all institutional pressure is working in favour of propaganda. My point is that the 30-40% estimate earlier in the thread is uncharitable to people.
Okay, I just see people attributing it to poor education a lot when... like the two most successful communist revolutions ever happened in countries where most people were illiterate peasants who thought the Czar/Emperor was ordained by God? Idk, as dumb as burgerbrains are I kinda thing a person who can read and has an internet connection should be a bit more capable than a cabbage farmer who can't count past 10