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Re:Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts by 190807 on Friday November 17, 2017 @05:58AM (#15720944)
Seems like you've read 'Amusing ourselves to death' by Neil Postman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
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Re:Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts by OscarTheGrinch on Friday November 17, 2017 @08:22AM (#15721730)
Just read that last week. Postman's critique of TV and media largly holds up. He would be glad about the iminent demise of TV, but apalled by what its successor technologies are doing to a still largely uncritical populace.
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