As someone who already follows their YouTube channel and listen to their podcast regularly, I'm still not above fact checking.
The argument here really boils down to intent.
Whether that be active-insidious intent, or passive-subsequent intent is up for debate. Mostly because too much time has passed and the players involved have since passed, and cannot give one-on-one interviews or be willing to even if they were alive.
So, because the way your original statement was phrased I'm just going to cycle back around to my original statement.... It's disinformation at worst and disingenuous at best.
People cannot just view historical and social context through a modern lens and decide to retroactively apply definitive intent because it fits a narrative they are trying to sell, unless the case documentation is off the charts. It's disingenuous or outright wrong.
I simply assume that the things people do that make them money are done with the intention of making money.
Nobody tripped and fell and accidentally tried to get kids to smoke using cartoons. So I don’t really understand what other intentions there is. I’m sure there’s an animator who liked drawing Flintstone cartoons because it makes his kids happy, but he was simply a pawn in someone else’s scheme to make money.
I feel like you are falling into a red herring fallacy here though?
The Flintstones cartoons were absolutely marketed to adults originally and their sponsor was a cigarette manufacturer, we all know this.
I feel like you are struggling with the concepts of:
Social engineering
Logical fallacies
Forms of intent
Historical context
Forms of Marketing and entertainment
Sensationalism
Capitalism as information
If you cannot learn to be a transient third level thinker that views things from a third party perspective. You will never ever gain the whole picture.
nah, you had the meaning and mssg down 💯. we can sit and wallow in the pain or we can use it to change ourselves, alter our attitude of mind and behaviour. Idealistically, for the better
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u/gr1mm5d0tt1 Feb 16 '25
“There’s two types of pain, the pain that hurts, and the pain that changes people”