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No, it was a false presupposition being planted by the power structure to subconsciously reframe people’s stance toward the world.
In this case, it was the nanny state pushing us down the cultural evolutionary path to where we are now, which is safety-obsessed.
New norms being injected into the populace by media.
Imagine the long term effects on the culture if the message were “It’s 10 pm. Are all the burners on your stove off?”
Imagine if the news said this to everyone, every day.
Imagine the long term effects of that innocent question’s repetition on later decades’ total incidence of OCD or anxiety disorders.
The key point isn’t that parents had to be reminded — they didn’t. They wanted to frame it as if they had to be reminded.
You can inject a presupposed fact into the unconscious frame people use to see their reality by doing this.
At least one guy jumped out of his chair and drove to the track field to pick up the kid they forgot that they were supposed to collect at 9pm
Yeah no doubt. And there were people whose houses burned down because the government didn’t ask about the stoves.
There are always gonna be dangers we can diminish by drawing attention to them.
There are always going to be long-term affects of those repeated attention shifts too, and of the manner in which they happen.