#privacytechpro tip: Watch the Century of the Self

'"Century of the Self" highlights how the trend of exploiting the public's unconscious desires has been adopted by politicians, among others.'

https://youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04

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https://piped.video/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

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Adam Curtis always hits

Interpreting topics in social sciences. Thanks for the link. Freud and Jung gave birth to psychoanalysis reminds me a film called A Dangerous Method (2011). https://youtu.be/ZhunuJRo8jA?si=Etbzl9Cjhf2IkdPX .. Indeed, words can influence human perception, although I think behaviorism is better at doing statistics. I wonder if some therapies are like fine-tuning neural networks by adjusting weights among the nodes via backpropagation. … P.S. I am kind of interested in that subject. I found this lecture, ‘LLMs as a Cultural Technology’ by Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley) https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/large-language-models-cultural-technology

great documentary

It’s so good. Also Hypernormalization

The seminal work on this is "Gustave Le Bon: Psychology of the masses (1895)"

It really explains the mechanism of totalitarianism in the 20th, but also the development in past couple of years

Read Bernay’s book ‘Propaganda’

Best documentary ever