[WalterBright]

> believing 90% of the profession ix trying to actively manipulate you is just disconnected from reality.

As I wrote in the opening post, once one learns about how the propaganda is done, what the techniques are, you start recognizing it all over the place.

It's like when I took some courses in sales techniques. Then, I'd go to buy a car, and sure enough, the salesmens' pitches were right out of those courses. I never recognized them for what they were before.

Becoming aware of when someone is trying to manipulate you, how they are doing it, and why it works is kind of a superpower.

[MrsPeaches]

Just FYI this has name: The frequency illusion aka the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. It’s a common cognitive bias.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

[hungryhobo]

i don't think that's an example of the frequency illusion. it's only a bias if you are actively dismissing the counter arguments. in the example of car salesman, i don't think it's controversial to say that they do in fact employ tactics that makes you more likely to purchase a car.

[slg]

But as I mentioned in my opening post, propaganda generally requires intent to manipulate. So you are not only recognizing techniques, you are assuming intentionality and motive for usage of those techniques. That is the part I don't buy.