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bucolic_frolic

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1. America has been conditioned ... 60 years of TV commercials and sitcoms

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2026, 09:41 AM

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and coming of age movies .... this stuff bakes your mind ... what you see is not logical, it's unreal, it distorts, it's narcissistic abuse, that's what gets eyeballs and sells products, advertising and psychology have merged.

Didn't Marshall McLuhan predict this in the 1920s? We are in the promised land. Our brains are sponges, our neurons are sotted.

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