Interview · moment 7 of 29
American vs. Soviet Propaganda
from #282 - Lex Fridman | The Tim Dillon Show · #282
7 min
Guest
Lex, drawing on growing up in the USSR, contrasts centralized Soviet propaganda with the competing, decentralized narratives of American media, including the Soviet national anthem's braggadocio versus the humbler American anthem.
- American propaganda is better because capitalism does everything great, even propaganda.
- Propaganda is narratives sustained through media, Hollywood, and sports that shape belief systems.
- Mainstream media created narratives pushing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- American obsession with individualist freedom makes propaganda take weird, competing forms instead of centralizing.
- Alex Jones and CNN compete for money with different narratives, making people constantly skeptical.
- Media is a dead animal on the side of the road and people like him are vultures sustaining themselves from it.
- Tech companies create real danger of re-centralizing control, threatening the competing narratives.
- During COVID, people were banned, demonetized, and lost careers for having different opinions.
- Robert Malone, one of the mRNA vaccine creators, was banned from Twitter for having an opinion.
- In 12 months, mentioning the lab origin theory went from getting you exiled to becoming mainstream belief.
- Zuckerberg wants to be seen as a good guy and is malleable, which makes him a problem without fixed values.
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