Your story of zombies, elitism, and government conspiracy is intriguing.
I will also agree that propaganda is a thing.
BUT…
The real culprit is the HUMAN BRAIN.
1. Strong information and media literacy are correlated primarily to psychological well-being.
2. The work of Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Paul Zak, and countless experts in behavioral economics, media literacy, and psychology have done studies demonstrating how the brain makes cognition error regardless of a persons education or socioeconomic status when handling various types of input.
3. People’s reasoning abilities are deficient with respect to the laws of logic and probability which obviously impacts their ability to be information or media literate.
4. It’s not a problem that has an obvious financial benefit to the organization or person who solves it by providing training or engineering a pill for it.
> "People’s reasoning abilities are deficient with respect to the laws of logic and probability which obviously impacts their ability to be information or media literate."
My whole point, which most responses have ignored, is that the skills needed to test media claims for veracity are learnable, trainable, understandable, etc. I mean, not a single comment has addressed the notion of internal self-consistency, which in mathematical terms is called, 'contradiction'. A person who claims it's okay for them to steal from their neighbor, but not for their neighbor to steal from them, can safely be laughed out of the room.
Your story of zombies, elitism, and government conspiracy is intriguing.
I will also agree that propaganda is a thing.
BUT…
The real culprit is the HUMAN BRAIN.
1. Strong information and media literacy are correlated primarily to psychological well-being.
2. The work of Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Paul Zak, and countless experts in behavioral economics, media literacy, and psychology have done studies demonstrating how the brain makes cognition error regardless of a persons education or socioeconomic status when handling various types of input.
3. People’s reasoning abilities are deficient with respect to the laws of logic and probability which obviously impacts their ability to be information or media literate.
4. It’s not a problem that has an obvious financial benefit to the organization or person who solves it by providing training or engineering a pill for it.
SOURCES:
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.5846...
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282480/
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096100062211420...
- https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_stories_ch...