You know, like I keep saying --- It's the #CapitalistPropaganda
And here you were thinking your decisions are objective & rational.
Nah.
Most are the product of heuristic thinking that is famously subject to an huge array of biases.
One, being the "availability heuristic" which explains mass media flooding the zone with propaganda disguised as things like "advertising," "news," and "entertainment."
The reason westerners think of themselves as "individuals" vs. a small contributing part of a collective?
You've been "programmed" by capitalist propaganda all your life.
Foundational shit that never even hits our rational objective cognition.
"Consumers" kept in line with a steady stream of learned helplessness propaganda.
Buy the brands. Be cool. Swim in a herd of consumptive sheep all the while "thinking" you are making choices setting you apart from the crowd.
https://mediaecologies.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/manuel-castells-communication-power/
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