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I don't know about y'all, but if I grew up in a country that never has the news criticizing its leaders, I'd be very skepical and deduce that there is censorshop going on and the offical news could be exaggerated or entirely falsified. Do people in authoritarian countries actually just eat the propaganda? To what extent do they believe the propaganda?

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you believe that your media isn’t propaganda? Just because it seems less extreme doesn’t mean you’ve not been duped too.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's too much lies in the world, I kinda developed a sort of "solipcistic" view of the world.

If I never witnessed it, I categorize it as "potentially false".

Of course, the entire news could be just fabricated. Nobody can tell for sure.

Anything beyond my immediate sorroundings could just be a stage. I could be in a truman show with everything I see being a deception, or in other terms "propaganda".

I'm not saying that everything isn't real, I just feel like that possibility should be entertained, to keep in mind as a potential possible explanation of what appears to be reality. Just as how a nation can lie to its people about reality, even the people closest to you, your parents, could also just be liars as well.

People never question if they are, in fact, the biological children of their parents, and just assume they are. That is another form of "propaganda". People just accept their parent's words as truth.

Propaganda is certainly everywhere. You cannot be sure what is real, other than the fact that "you" exist, in some form.