Advertising and academia are controlling our thoughts. Didn’t you know? | George Monbiot

pirinoes 2/2 Is it really any profound surprise that people half a millennium apart would have have different conceptions of the world in which they live? What this has to do with modern advertising, I really don’t know.

pirinoes This article contains a number of interesting and legitimate points. But the opening about people having a different ‘worldview’ 500 years ago is pretty ridiculous. That was a world in which basic science was still evolving, medicine was primitive, technology non-existent. 1/2

A good read for anyone who is involved in choice architecture. Thanks for writing this

Fantastic piece

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The pursuit of truth controls my thoughts....but I don't think that is a common occurrence.

So are the media when they push agendas. Right, Guardian?

That's why there's so many batshit crazy leftards around.

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