GaryDog
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- Feb 10, 2016
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The man who studies the spread of ignorance
Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusion and deceit, usually to sell a product or win favour
In 1979, a secret memo from the tobacco industry was revealed to the public. Called the Smoking and Health Proposal, and written a decade earlier by the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, it revealed many of the tactics employed by big tobacco to counter “anti-cigarette forces”.
In one of the paper’s most revealing sections, it looks at how to market cigarettes to the mass public: “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.”
Question Obama's legitimacy. Call Hillary a murderer. Enable Trump's ignorant/sexist/racist remarks with a shrug. Above all, spread stupidity.
After all, the stupid don't know they're stupid.
And after Trump profits from the presidency and fleeces the very idiots who vociferously supported him, you can STILL use agnology to blame Obama, Democrats, millennials, or anything you want.
Seriously, anything. These people are now that dumb.
Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusion and deceit, usually to sell a product or win favour
In 1979, a secret memo from the tobacco industry was revealed to the public. Called the Smoking and Health Proposal, and written a decade earlier by the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, it revealed many of the tactics employed by big tobacco to counter “anti-cigarette forces”.
In one of the paper’s most revealing sections, it looks at how to market cigarettes to the mass public: “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.”
Question Obama's legitimacy. Call Hillary a murderer. Enable Trump's ignorant/sexist/racist remarks with a shrug. Above all, spread stupidity.
After all, the stupid don't know they're stupid.
And after Trump profits from the presidency and fleeces the very idiots who vociferously supported him, you can STILL use agnology to blame Obama, Democrats, millennials, or anything you want.
Seriously, anything. These people are now that dumb.