because it seems like there is no clear boundary. If I purchased a steel mill and was the sole oener/operator is that personal property? what if it is only used for hobby projects and not for profit?
Sure, it worked, but in the wrong direction. “Global warming” is a factual description and “climate change” is an obscuring euphemism invented by polluters.
maybe society should incentivise people more to understand things instead of jumping to conclusions. It is such a widespread problem. People tend to interpret details of either alien concepts or concepts they don’t (or are taught to not) like and don’t fully understand in the most negative way
That’s also just propaganda. When we’re taught random stuff, like philosophy, we don’t necessarily jump off to a negative conclusion. It’s mostly with political stuff where we’re beaten down to think that things like redistribution or socialism is “good in theory but bad in practice”, that “humans are selfish by nature”, that “anyone with power is corrupted so we shouldn’t aim to have it”, and so on, so by the time you encounter leftist theory you don’t treat it with the same grace you would if you read, say, Aristotle, but as a reflection of poor character (“they must have had a secret agenda of domination!”), or poor understanding (“did Marx never hear about human nature? what a dumbass!”) or both. When we actually open up to the idea that people like Marx and Engels and others could be right, and read it with an open mind, we can very easily work out that they were right.
i think in general it is due to cognitive dissonance, which kicks in when ideas are tied to strong emotions. In the case of propaganda those emotions are induced by the language used to describe those concepts. This is definitely on purpose.
But i have seen this effect with way more meaningless things as well. For example, i am a huge coffee nerd and when i tell people about specialty coffee, what it is and how i can taste, even while making an effort to not belittle anyones personal preferences, people still get weirdly defensive about their tastes.
So i really think it is a more general societal problem of valueing knowledge over the process of learning and understanding.
This in itself is a useful trait because it makes people way more susceptible to propaganda
So many people don’t understand the difference between personal and private property.
because it seems like there is no clear boundary. If I purchased a steel mill and was the sole oener/operator is that personal property? what if it is only used for hobby projects and not for profit?
Then it wouldn’t be production then dude keep up.
No it’s private property you’re a petty bourgeois/small proprietor.
If you’re not selling what you make it’s personal property.
Maybe you should rename “private property” then so people don’t keep getting the wrong idea?
Yeah that sure worked with global warming and climate change didn’t it?
Sure, it worked, but in the wrong direction. “Global warming” is a factual description and “climate change” is an obscuring euphemism invented by polluters.
maybe society should incentivise people more to understand things instead of jumping to conclusions. It is such a widespread problem. People tend to interpret details of either alien concepts or concepts they don’t (or are taught to not) like and don’t fully understand in the most negative way
That’s also just propaganda. When we’re taught random stuff, like philosophy, we don’t necessarily jump off to a negative conclusion. It’s mostly with political stuff where we’re beaten down to think that things like redistribution or socialism is “good in theory but bad in practice”, that “humans are selfish by nature”, that “anyone with power is corrupted so we shouldn’t aim to have it”, and so on, so by the time you encounter leftist theory you don’t treat it with the same grace you would if you read, say, Aristotle, but as a reflection of poor character (“they must have had a secret agenda of domination!”), or poor understanding (“did Marx never hear about human nature? what a dumbass!”) or both. When we actually open up to the idea that people like Marx and Engels and others could be right, and read it with an open mind, we can very easily work out that they were right.
i think in general it is due to cognitive dissonance, which kicks in when ideas are tied to strong emotions. In the case of propaganda those emotions are induced by the language used to describe those concepts. This is definitely on purpose.
But i have seen this effect with way more meaningless things as well. For example, i am a huge coffee nerd and when i tell people about specialty coffee, what it is and how i can taste, even while making an effort to not belittle anyones personal preferences, people still get weirdly defensive about their tastes.
So i really think it is a more general societal problem of valueing knowledge over the process of learning and understanding. This in itself is a useful trait because it makes people way more susceptible to propaganda