Don’t we have enough monsters walking around?

According to a recent CivicScience survey, belief in Bigfoot and conspiracies in general has risen nearly 18% in the last two years despite the continued existence and progress of sciences.

There’s a method of receiving information called “repetition learning,” by which merely hearing and then repeating a piece of information takes on more veracity with every re-telling, factual or not.

Works on a micro-level, works on a macro-level.

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Carla · 61-69, F

Repetition is the manner in which many of us were taught. It is a proven method.

And short sentences, with no big words, seems to be the best hook.
"Lock her up"
" build the wall"
"Stop the steal"
"Drill baby drill"
The list goes on.

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Carla · 61-69, F

@Kwek00 advertisers have employed behavioral experts, forever.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Carla Yeah, sure... but it's also stuff we do in our daily life. Mostly on an unconcious level, because it was taught by vieuwing how other people in your life get things done from other people. Some people are more trained in it then others. But human beings have a tendency to manipulate. Language always has that manipulative side to it.

Don't forget that one of those things George Orwell warns his readers for in 1948, is the destruction of grammar. The totalitarian regime in that book, controls people by cutting words and oversimplifying language. The more grammar a person has, the more tools they have to construct nuance and better reasoning. If you destroy language, and things become oversimplified, so will the reasoning become more and more simplistic.

An example that you find on this website a lot, are people talking about "killing babies" when it comes to abortion. As if the moment the egg internalises the sperm, you have a baby. By using the word "baby" you create an emotional responds from people thinking about the small humans that are in that phase of their human development. But the word "impregnated egg" and "fetus" ... they are all cut out. These people just removed that part out of their reasoning, and now all people that want other people to have the freedom to have an abortion are murderes because they are killing "babies". Over simplification, is just a political tool to control those people that are easily manipulated because they don't cherish their grammar.

Carla · 61-69, F

@Kwek00 dumbing down. There is an over simplification for you.
But it is appropriate.
My undereducated mother taught me that words were everything. She practically ate books.
If i didn't understand a word, she would have me write it down, and look it up.
I will never be the most intellegent, or educated, but i do know that fear and hatred(most often driven by fear) is the perfect tool for manipualtion.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

Kinda what happens when schools between 12-18 years old, are more focused on preparing their students for a job in the workplace. While time needed to developing: critical thinking, history and even political education ... you know stuff that prepares yourself for "life outside of the workplace", are pushed back. Because time is a limited resource, and a particulair second can only be consumed once. So yeah... eventually, that bites societies in the ass.

DrWatson · 70-79, M

All you need to do to get certain people to believe something is to say, "The government is suppressing it!"

canusernamebemyusername · M

The show supernatural taught me that all monsters are humans.

being · 36-40, F

Great, our imagination is growing 😀

Graylight · 51-55, F

@being Imagination, psychosis. You say potato, I say this country is careening over a cliff...
😉

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

Isn't the world big and complicated enough to occupy people's minds full time without making up rubbish? 🙂

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