Is it because it's basically reinforced messaging and repetition is basically how brainwashing works and that doing it on an industrial scale and making a societal norm is how you normalize desired behaviors?
More or less. I'm not nearly the smarty wordmaking guy Auron is so I'm probably butchering it but my understanding is there is a feedback loop where people want to show they are both a part of the group but also display their personal elevated status. They do this by displaying high status behaviors that they know are socially conformist and in-line with other, known, high-status individuals.
An example he gives is an average-to-upper middle class White woman* mentioning* on social media about her "trans kids". She does this not because she really cares about trannies but because that is what all of the celebrities she sees on TV and reads about all the time are talking about. Of course she will pretend sincerity to her grave because in her social environment the loss of "authenticity" is reputational death.
Is it because it's basically reinforced messaging and repetition is basically how brainwashing works and that doing it on an industrial scale and making a societal norm is how you normalize desired behaviors?
More or less. I'm not nearly the smarty wordmaking guy Auron is so I'm probably butchering it but my understanding is there is a feedback loop where people want to show they are both a part of the group but also display their personal elevated status. They do this by displaying high status behaviors that they know are socially conformist and in-line with other, known, high-status individuals.
An example he gives is an average-to-upper middle class White woman* mentioning* on social media about her "trans kids". She does this not because she really cares about trannies but because that is what all of the celebrities she sees on TV and reads about all the time are talking about. Of course she will pretend sincerity to her grave because in her social environment the loss of "authenticity" is reputational death.