top | item 21983447 (no title) StuffedParrot | 6 years ago > That's extraordinary nonsense.What are you basing this on? discuss order hn newest exolymph|6 years ago Common sense? Does it seem likely that politicians concluded being able to manipulate people better = improvement to democracy?Hmm, actually, you may have a point. jariel|6 years ago Wearing seatbelts?Drinking less alcohol?Eating well?Not beating your wife?Voting?Finishing school?Recycling?Most of the ways our government wanted us to change in the last century were fairly positive and actually barely controversial.It's the controversial one's we talk about. StuffedParrot|6 years ago I am not entirely convinced myself (I doubt there was a conspiracy so much as shared incentives) but the documentary is quite compelling, I recommend it.
exolymph|6 years ago Common sense? Does it seem likely that politicians concluded being able to manipulate people better = improvement to democracy?Hmm, actually, you may have a point. jariel|6 years ago Wearing seatbelts?Drinking less alcohol?Eating well?Not beating your wife?Voting?Finishing school?Recycling?Most of the ways our government wanted us to change in the last century were fairly positive and actually barely controversial.It's the controversial one's we talk about. StuffedParrot|6 years ago I am not entirely convinced myself (I doubt there was a conspiracy so much as shared incentives) but the documentary is quite compelling, I recommend it.
jariel|6 years ago Wearing seatbelts?Drinking less alcohol?Eating well?Not beating your wife?Voting?Finishing school?Recycling?Most of the ways our government wanted us to change in the last century were fairly positive and actually barely controversial.It's the controversial one's we talk about.
StuffedParrot|6 years ago I am not entirely convinced myself (I doubt there was a conspiracy so much as shared incentives) but the documentary is quite compelling, I recommend it.
exolymph|6 years ago
Hmm, actually, you may have a point.
jariel|6 years ago
Drinking less alcohol?
Eating well?
Not beating your wife?
Voting?
Finishing school?
Recycling?
Most of the ways our government wanted us to change in the last century were fairly positive and actually barely controversial.
It's the controversial one's we talk about.
StuffedParrot|6 years ago