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by ccbccccbbcccbb 1313 days ago
That's right, the most blatant of all brainwashes has always been directed at children. But it's totally under parents' radar, because they were treated well in their due time too. The human spiral of doom.
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Actually, marketing to children is a recent innovation in humanity. It really only picked up post-WWII.

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-history-of-advertisi...

History can be the antidote to anecdata.

Indoctrination is way older than the technologies that propel it nowadays.