posted ago by Mad_King_Kalak ago by Mad_King_Kalak +5 / -0

Just a thought, but advertising agencies and governments have been perfecting fear porn tactics for decades now with the propaganda campaigns against smoking, drunk driving, and the war on drugs. Those cheesy ads? All they did was change the topic, but it's the same techniques. Same thing goes for seeding stories in the media. Instead of a story where drunk driver kills X, they just swapped out drunk driver for covid.

I was not a regular viewer of Don Draper and Mad Men, but to that show's credit, it did show how easily we are manipulated. All three anti-vice campaigns have been pretty successful.

This is not to say that I support drunk driving, drug use, or smoking. Frankly, all three are pretty dumb. But once an elite consensus formed that it was acceptable to manipulate the public on these issues, you didn't think it would stop there, did you?