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by sifar 2357 days ago
>> the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment.

More importantly, these people have realized it is far easier to shape the environment to the individual than mould the individual to the environment. When you can engulf an individual in his own filter bubble, you no longer have to predict his behavior, but can literally shape it.