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The World Has Always Been On Fire

Anne Helen Petersen · 28 May 2025

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  1. Our reading

    Political propaganda will not work if it is not created by people who share the same life experiences and fears as the target audience.

    Their wordsAn additional reality is that it will never work if it isn't created by people who are living the same sort of life, with the same sort of fears, as the people you want to reach.

  2. Our reading

    Many people who consider themselves liberal will act to conserve their personal and financial status quo when faced with things that threaten their bourgeois class status.

    Their wordsI've seen all of those things activate fear centers in people who consider themselves liberal, causing them to act and speak and cling to solutions that aim to conserve their personal and financial status quo.

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