Every time I see westerns post some 
shit the usual response is “well propaganda is a hell of a drug”.
But if western propaganda is really that effective, how the fuck did we get here? I’d think if it was really this good at melting people’s brain’s it’d be effective enough to prevent communities like this from even existing. So like are we special or something?
Also raises the question, if we’re able to get over this BS, wtf is everyone else’s excuse for falling hook-line-and-sinker for it?
Because we put time and effort into critically examining our biases and seeking out other perspectives and sources. If we did the same with let’s say baseball, then we’d have better baseball takes than people who didn’t and we could all pat ourselves on the back and wonder how it is that we’re so smart. Most people don’t really care how accurate their impression of the DPRK is, because they have little reason to.
Yup. Time and effort. Time and effort. Then after that, some more time and effort. Fully escaping the propaganda mind prison is like learning a second language, except there isn’t an app for it. And you can never be sure that you’ve fully reached escape velocity
This is the entire issue and not the other part you wrote.
That makes no sense.
Because they have little reason to… do what? Care enough to critically examine their beliefs, the other part I wrote.