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> I don't think that the adoption of this narrative is due to the Internet though;

Clarifying…I meant the narratives in general, not this particular one. When your information sphere becomes narrowed, whatever narratives are within it tend to be reinforced and over time become inseparable from reality. Left and right, Russian and American, etc. it doesn’t matter it happens.

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You are correct, but the sphere is larger than it ever was today, and the effect was much more pronounced in the past. There was a time when a full 15% of the American population was regularly watching Walter Cronkite each night. A lot of the counter culture movement of the 1970s was a reaction against this prescribed capitalist reality that the vast majority of the population bought into.

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