@rasterman @matrix absent mass media, it would be very difficult. The conversations would go like this:
hawker: GREAT NEWS! The ruler of Somelandia has fallen! He was a great tyrant! Also I fuck dogs.
peasant #1: wow. what'd he do?
peasant #2: what did you just say about dogs?
hawker: HE COMMITTED MANY GREAT ILLS
peasant #1: like what?
hawker: angry npc.jpg_large
peasant #2: what did you say about dogs?
It'd fail right away. You need a total immersion in media for people not even wonder what the great tyrant might be feared.
@matrix your brain on propaganda
the endless pounding propaganda that infects all Americans, corrupting them into thinking blue man or red man is on their side, an eternal game of let’s you and him fight…