Propaganda doesn’t totally rob people of agency free will (more accurate term), if it did this site wouldn’t exist. People do have the capacity to develop critical thinking, skepticism, and a basic curiosity about the world that allow them to develop some resistance to propaganda.

You can hold people accountable for failing to even attempt to do this.

  • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    And that right there is privilege gone unrecognised. Not as much of a privilege as some others, it’s still the sum of something. You didn’t will yourself into questioning your position in life, nor were you struck by lightning to do ao.