ADHD is the true anarchist spirit.
Bullshit. There’s more propaganda online.
Now. There wasn’t always an online. Even once there was, back in my day, sonny, it wasn’t always filled with inescapable propaganda. That all started in the 2010s.
Before that you would get some stupid ass chain email from your weird uncle and be like “does he really think I’m reading this bullshit?” lulz
I also tied onions around my belt.
I remember the internet before Trump won in 2016. It was a different place.
See also: aphantasia!
Not visualizing myself with or for a product has likely helped a ton.
Spoon fed ? They shovel feed it x)
oof, only propaganda i remember from school in finland was about milk consumption(in favour). they even put posters about it to classrooms. I suppose it didnt bite into me that hard since i often forget to use milk carton before it rots and dont even buy milk that often because of it.
Church alone does more brainwashing than any secular source
Our highschool finance teacher would randomly stop the class to ralk about how communism killed more people than Nazis because of North Korea.
He was normally a basketball coach but teacher shortage I guess? Weird experience overall.
got expelled for not showing up. showed me how to work the system
When I was in the third grade, I had a teacher tell me it was okay we pushed the natives off the land because we made more efficient use of it, and could therefore carry a greater population.
In the previous grade the teacher passed around a worksheet, and we had to choose which jobs were most suited to what gender.
Oh what a glorious whitebread bublefuck town I grew up in!
my mom didn’t want me playing pokemon because it “taught evolution”
Its weird cuz evolution in Pokemon is more akin to metamorposes or even just basic puberty except theres sometimes 1 extra step XD
this was not lost on little ol gradeschool me
How fun would it be to have an entirely breeding focused game of Pokemon that was about evolution, though? You want an ivysaur? Selectively breed these bulbasaurs that kind of look more like an ivysaur!
Pal world was kinda like that. Might be worth checking out. I had fun with it
The concept of “fun” has been trademarked by the Nintendo corporation. Your trial will being soon.
in the US au last you have to be actively using a trademark in order to defend it in court
R/whoosh
You’re trial will being soon!
~fucking calling me names…~
Same, lol
This idea made it to the netherlands as well
I feel bad that I wore the free D.A.R.E. propaganda shirts in school because my family was too poor to get me decent clothing.
I know a lot of adults that wore them ironically, so maybe you were just ahead of your time.
Naw. Wear that shit with pride, then take a Snoop-level rip from a bong.
Don’t feel bad for doing it out of necessity.
Nah, they gave you free clothes. 🙂
Don’t.
Just think of it as cop-averting camo.
Drugs ARE Really Expensive, though. So, is it propaganda, or truth in advertising…? 🤔
I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance because I was hyperfixated on the Eragon books and it seemed too similar to swearing loyalty to Galbatorix.
it’s literal brainwashing. Americans laugh at the NK people having to praise Dear Daddy, but then every morning in school, they cite the pledge of allegiance. Why would you want to be allied with one of the worst countries in modern history? Fuck that.
What happens in North Korea if they refuse to do something like the pledge?
You’re asking this as if any information we have about NK is anything but US and SK propaganda lol
I had such high hopes for dbzer0, but it’s just another .ml.
What happens in America tomorrow if we refuse to say the pledge?
Tomorrow? Like Monday? Nothing happens if kids refuse to say the pledge of allegiance in America on Monday. They just don’t say it.
There’s always tomorrow.
You’re pretending that America can’t be turned into a place with similarities to N. Korea, when the wealthy and powerful are clearly trying to steer us that direction. Yes, it’s perfectly valid to draw such comparisons, especially when we are using them as a warning for ourselves.
That depends entirely on state and even on individual teachers in those states
Same, except I read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. She seemed to have the right idea about a lot of things. Eragon definitely solidified it.
I had forgotten about that, it was such a surreal book.
Most propaganda is aimed at neurotypical wiring. We are out of tune with it, that gives us a measure of protection.
It’s one of the worries I have with AI. While I think we are more protected from propaganda than most (since we constantly want to poke at the crack in a story), we are not immune. It’s perfectly possible to shape it to effect us. They just haven’t bothered, since we are a small target. AI makes that a lot easier to do, so we will see more of it.
considering how certain people seem to get to the point of psychosis from llm usage, i dread the day the corporations start utilizing this fully. it would probably be possible to completely brainwash someone vulnerable to do ANYTHING with llm as long as they are receptive to it.
So that’s why my fifth grade teacher hated me. Because I was too smart for her lazy bullshit lessons. 😂
Did anyone else ace the assignments without paying any attention to the lectures?
In 8th grade i would spend a lot of class on my phone by hiding it in my desk. I was still one of the only people to regularly participate in class and was a straight A student until uni.
There was one instance where another srudent ratted me out for using my phone. He had tried to rat me out multiple times before but i usually stuck it in a book or folder. This time he called me out for doing so, so the teacher ended up taking my phone. School policy was that she would have to turn it over to the principal and my parents would have to pick it up. The teacher was a 60+ year old former nun and I had strict parents so i was not looking forward to it. When we went out to lunch the teacher called me over and told me to wait for a second. She handed me my phone back and told me not to get caught again.
She never checked my desk for my phone again and I continued to be one of the only people who raised my hand.
Aw what a nice teacher! I was in school way before smart phones came out. I definitely would have used one during class. 😂
It was a small Catholic school in a big city and the student population was a majority middle-class white kids; that is to say that despite being the weird nerdy queer brown kid I was one of the best behaved, had some of the best grades, consistently output high quality work (even when bullshitting it), and participated in all my classes including religion despite being an outspoken atheist. Most of my teachers loved me and gave me a lot of leniency because even at my worst I was still leagues ahead typically. It also helped that my mom was very involved and made it known if i was causing trouble that they could call her and she’d sort it out quickly, so if i ever was actually out of line they knew it wouldn’t last long.
Yeah, they repeated so much to the normies I never did any studying and only barely paid attention in class and aced all the tests. Then I went to college where I might have a class every other days and realized I had no idea how to study. doh.
Yeah. It’s one of the reasons I wasn’t diagnosed until my 30s.
Constantly in highschool. If you count a lazy 85% without really lifting a finger as “acing,” that is.
God it’s funny when your brain not working right accidentally prevents certain issues. I’m immune to getting addicted to MMOs, my brain can’t handle the slow dopamine distribution.
To be fair , MMOs aren’t fun because of gameplay, they are fun because of the social aspects.
which ironically have diminished greatly in mmos
Yeah the golden era of MMOs was ~2007. It’s been getting worse since then.
at least there are still some gems appearing occasionally; project gorgon for one in my opinion at least. gloria victis was/is also pretty decent, star citizen is mixed opinion for me, but definitely above wow or other generic mmo games.
Working harder and grinding more should mean more levels and cool gear faster.
In reality, the harder you work the slower the dopamine, and then I dip.
Unless it’s RuneScape, which offers a wealth of extremely repetitive tasks!
A friend of mine got me to play an MMO a ling time ago, made it 30 minuts, fuck was it boring.
my hyperfocus (i’m not adhd, i just love my adhd peeps) did because i paid too much attention and pointed out the gaps to my favorite history teacher in high school (after class, i’m not an asshole. well, not an asshole all the time). first month he gave me the book “lies my teacher told me” with the note “Good! Keep thinking critically about what you are learning! This book too!” or something like that, it’s in a box somewhere (i don’t have room to unpack my entire library here, i’ve got 2 bookshelves of books waiting to be unpacked).
I was fortunate my social studies teachers weren’t propagandizing, they straight up said the government lied to pursue some wars such as the one in Vietnam
it was the textbook we were required to use and the difference between that and what we were learning in class. I was noticing the gap.
