jorm:<\/p>\n
\n it’s so clear to me that all the bullshit of the past 8 years was stoked so that we’d be too divided to enter this fight<\/p>\n
I mean, I think everything<\/em>. I think Brexit, Gamergate, Q-Anon.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In the end all of this feels like the weaponization of exploits in both our general and specific social cognition: General in that it represents an entire class of exploit, and specific in that it was tailored to the signifiers, mores, and normative style of the Anglosphere.<\/p>\n
Within any group there\u2019s a tendency to use similar metaphors and representations, as well as values, rooted in a shared literary traditions, and to use similar forms of argument to persuade (at least at the level of the laity). So if you want to intentionally spread specific ideas among a population, you could do worse than to study just what that populations literary tradition (and therefore metaphors and values) and preferred style of argument are.<\/p>\n
The ways you spread an idea among Anglophones and Francophones may be very different, but the way you determine how to spread an idea among each is the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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