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“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

 

Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

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“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

 

Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Literally Idiocracy.

That kind of 2-word answer is a common misunderstanding.

In Idiocracy fiction film story, they took the smartest person to the White House and put him in charge. that is not what is happening in the United States of America year 2025.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The image appears straight out of Idiocracy... Nothing that you wrote makes that not true?

But thanks, I guess? You clearly wanted to say something!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You clearly wanted to say something!

yha, I created a comment on public social media like people do every day. it's common.