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A room full of educated professionals workshopping ways to manufacture the consent of the masses five days a week pretty much ensures that the average individual doesn't stand a chance at winning a battle of agency that they weren't told they were fighting.

>>photik+(OP)
Ah yes, those poor dumb masses...from which you exclude yourself. I suppose it's pure selflessness that leads you -- someone who is clearly not average -- to advocate on behalf of all those rubes without free will.

>>slibhb+H
Lol are you implying that acknowledging that propaganda and marketing has an effect on the masses is an egotistical thing to do. Hilarious.

>>slibhb+H
You're just trying to argue for the sake of arguing at that point.

And yes if you're on this forum chances are you're above average, if you're college educated you're already above average, it's not that hard really. I think you're overestimating what the average human is and underestimating what the top minds of google &co are being paid millions for.

> I suppose it's pure selflessness that leads you -

What about lobbyist ? The tobacco industry is run on goodwill too ? After all cigarettes were advertised as improving your lung capacity, why don't you smoke ? Don't you want better lungs ? Why would you want kids not to smoke ? Are you anti freedom ?

>>slibhb+H
How's arguing with a pile of straw going for you.

>>slibhb+H
I saw no indication of self-referential exclusion on behalf of the preceding poster. Mayhaps a bit of projection has snuck in?

Regardless, they have a point. Our system is driven by financially motivated, and subsidized action. Most people are just trying to live their lives with minimal interference and are not sampling for sources of psychological manipulation. Self-generated or external-to-self originated. In point of fact, metacognition is not last I researched on it, a universal thing for everyone.

I do not exclude myself from this population of non-samplers either, but as a tester, I am also well acquainted with the fact that testing costs and nature selects to minimize costs. Just as bacteria will abandon costly resistance mechanisms to a stressor given sufficient time removed from a stressor, so too do we in terms of our mental safeguarding behavior.