I just learned it was infact the Victorian's who developed statistics, as a way of controlling people and turning them into simple workers who don't act out

this led to the development of Babbages Difference and Analytical Engine

FYI people believed the pharoah was a living God longer than people have believed Jesus was the son of God, to the point that they made monuments to them out of devotions

yeah tell me people weren't being indoctrinated and brainwashed to great effect in the past

and you are an idiot for thinking. that the same types of proganada and misinformation weren't used to great effect in the past, and was more effectively done in the past

Like how do you think people learned to accept worshipping a man as a living God? UNCONDTIONALLY?

no you're just completely ignorant of the past

Misinformation and propaganda were being beamed into people's heads back then too

music, stories, cultural traditions, displays and performances, all made to indoctrinate and brainwash people into buying into the social and societal sctructures

this is just another version of "the good old days" mentality that is just delusional misinformed wishful thinking

no you seem to be under the delusional belief that people have never been susceptible to propaganda misinformation and being emotionally manipulated, when in reality there is rich history going back to the ancient past

there was estimated to be anywhere from 60-100k in the "People's Crusade," think about that reality, almost 100k illiterate pheasants manage to get whipped up to such a religious ferver that they went on suicide mission for God, during a time with no mass media

the first crusade was started by a popes pronouncement, as an effort to distract Europeans from killing each other by pon the them to an "other" that was more productive, Muslims, it was literal propaganda

which was not what everyone wanted and expected, to the point where they were abandoned and left to be wiped out because no one would support them, then again they did pave a path of indescriminate destruction on their "crusade" and refusing to submit to any effort to control them

the first crusade was a literal mob of pheasants that was whipped by religious ferver and propaganda

the crusades and Jewish pogroms would like to join the conversation now

The Salem Witch Trials and the Spanish Inquisition would like a word with you.....

people were more susceptible to misinformation, propaganda, and mob mentality in those days

So when word of that pope reaches them, those pheasants will think it's a sign of the apocalypse and riot, and the Lord placates everyone by having the herbal woman burned to death for being a witch

not everyone is neurodivergent

and alot of people like to be social

left wing progressive here, and I too often wish people would strike up convos and be more friendly in places like planes, I often don't put on earbuds or try to be occupied doing something just in the hopes someone might strike up a convo with me, that's how people used to meet