The war on disinformation is a war on dissent

Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by jacquesm on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:47PM (#26051877)

This is reminiscent of something I read about the kind of courage and mental fortitude required to break out of a cult or a strongly imposing religion. Basically, the reflex will be to take whatever pressure or evidence there is for seeing that 'x' is bad and to turn it on its head: to see the very act of presenting this information as the bad thing, and to disbelieve the information. Because to believe the information strikes so close to the core ego that the ego will self-protect by rejecting the evidence.

So there won't be any rude awakenings, or, at least not many of them.

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Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by IgorPartola on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:29PM (#26052103)

I wonder if that’s what happened with the Native Americans who couldn’t see the Europeans’ sail ships the first time they encountered it (assuming that event actually happened as described). If you can’t fathom something your brain simply rejects that reality and substitutes one that is easier to accept.

But I’ve also been reading some stories of people who were seemingly true QAnon believers who after January 20th realized that marshal law wasn’t being declared and that Trump really was leaving and how it seemed to shake them. There was also the woman who called CSPAN if I recall correctly, crying because she felt like Trump betrayed her by distancing himself from the Jan 6th insurrectionists and how she just couldn’t make sense of the world. To think that she is the one who finally saw reality for what it was while others continue to believe that this is all a part of some grand plan... how do you even come out of that?

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