zenosanalytic reblogged
You can see it my word choice, like saying avoiding MSG is a "superstition", or calling the unsourced anecdotes about important scientists that seem to get passed down to every generation "mythology". I think that educated people and uneducated people, modern people and ancient people, believe false things for similar reasons, that the false beliefs are the result of similar processes. That these processes, like mythmaking, or the formation of superstitions, were active then and are active now, are at work in the uneducated and the educated.
#raginrayguns#Superstition#Mythology#Sociology#Good Thoughts#appreciative reblogs#the one thing I'd say is that the scale of propaganda is so much more vast now that it's practically a new thing to what they could do then#like: the MSG stuff was in part an institutional campaign to promote anti-asian bias.#it was just a plausibly deniable version of the older 'they get their meat by killing street animals' but pushed by the US Gov and Press#minitagrambles
