Propaganda works the best when people want to believe the propaganda
Posting this famous essay which addresses your question with class based analysis (essentially, Westerners overwhelmingly believe propaganda because they overall benefit from the current global capitalist system)
Thank you! Those of us in the West absolutely benefit from the global order! The fact that labor costs are lower in the periphery reduces the cost of living in the core. The proletariat in the core is therefore given a choice between cooperation with capital which brings it's own benefits, or it could risk joining with the people in far away countries with whome they can't speak the same language, to gain an uncertain benefit.
I was going to post this article and decided to scroll the comments in the thread first because I figured there was a good chance somebody already did. @SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net , I’m seconding this, the article that Gave Up linked is, I think, probably the best answer to your question and definitely helped me to wrap my head around the same question when I first read it.
Propaganda works the best when people want to believe the propaganda
Posting this famous essay which addresses your question with class based analysis (essentially, Westerners overwhelmingly believe propaganda because they overall benefit from the current global capitalist system)
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
Thank you! Those of us in the West absolutely benefit from the global order! The fact that labor costs are lower in the periphery reduces the cost of living in the core. The proletariat in the core is therefore given a choice between cooperation with capital which brings it's own benefits, or it could risk joining with the people in far away countries with whome they can't speak the same language, to gain an uncertain benefit.
I was going to post this article and decided to scroll the comments in the thread first because I figured there was a good chance somebody already did. @SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net , I’m seconding this, the article that Gave Up linked is, I think, probably the best answer to your question and definitely helped me to wrap my head around the same question when I first read it.