… in our hellish, capitalist dystopia people gladly pay for it.

Streaming services are available everywhere: on TVs, computers, phones, tablets and anything else with a screen and a network card. They ensure an uninterrupted audiovisual assault on our mind with Pentagon-approved movies and made-for-binge-watching TV shows. All palatable to us because of sights and sounds that play to our emotions, moving along a simple plot with dialogue that never challenges. Our defenses are brought down and we aren’t even aware that our mind is filling up with neoliberal ideology.

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    Fahrenheit 451 did a good job portraying this, though there are some aspects of the book which are a bit shaky.

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    The images you describe are part of the propaganda. People think that’s the only way propaganda is delivered, and therefore they can’t possibly be propagandized.

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      I meant more like how including liberal premises of how the world works into media. But I guess that only means it was made by liberals with their worldview. I still experience it as propaganda though, maybe cause I’m just sick of it.