Re:Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, repor...
by r3trohack3r on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:44PM
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A lot of people want you to believe a lot of things for a lot of reasons.
I do not believe any of the people that I saw generating social pressure around recycling in my childhood worked for plati-corps... But they did have their personal identity and social/political in-group signaling tightly coupled to being _perceived_ as caring about the environment.
No need for a historical lens though. The same dynamics are at play now.
The more frequently someone uses in-group and out-group signaling language to short-cut critical thinking in discourse, the more likely it is that they're perpetuating some form of "propaganda."
I do not believe any of the people that I saw generating social pressure around recycling in my childhood worked for plati-corps... But they did have their personal identity and social/political in-group signaling tightly coupled to being _perceived_ as caring about the environment.
No need for a historical lens though. The same dynamics are at play now.
The more frequently someone uses in-group and out-group signaling language to short-cut critical thinking in discourse, the more likely it is that they're perpetuating some form of "propaganda."