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Understanding and internalizing the nature of propaganda is one of the major ways in which my thinking nowadays is radically different from my thinking 15+ years ago. I think I might have a difficult time having a conversation with my past self because if the self-imposed mental roadblocks I had. As OP mentioned:
...people get super hung up about the classification of communication and persuasion as being "propaganda" or not. It's so thought-terminating that it's difficult to even engage with people on certain subjects.