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Belief that “Cannabis comes from China” has taken root among pot aficionados and the wider public since a new PRC genomics study on the origin of Cannabis.
On the face of it simply about the origin of Cannabis, the Ren genomics study is Party propaganda as much as science, as its piss-poor methodology and research betray. Heavily promoted, its overriding purpose was headlines. It got them, as the study was picked up and uncritically reported across the Internet and everywhere from Nature to CNN.
Subtle massaging of popular consciousness such as this is very effective propaganda, gently shifting public perception and priming it for assimilation and acceptance of the Party’s desired view: the absolute centrality of China – the PRC – to the world.
Incremental shifts in perception – barely noticed by the target, if at all – are pivotal to propaganda in the 21st Century. Without their even realizing, tokers across the West received a strong dose of Xi Jinping Thought.
The photograph shows detainees in a “reeducation camp” in Lop Nor, Xinjiang, April 2017
To get a handle on how our minds are being toyed with very subtly by totalitarian states, check out the deep insights of Peter Pomerantsev:
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On the face of it simply about the origin of Cannabis, the Ren genomics study is Party propaganda as much as science, as its piss-poor methodology and research betray. Heavily promoted, its overriding purpose was headlines. It got them, as the study was picked up and uncritically reported across the Internet and everywhere from Nature to CNN.
Subtle massaging of popular consciousness such as this is very effective propaganda, gently shifting public perception and priming it for assimilation and acceptance of the Party’s desired view: the absolute centrality of China – the PRC – to the world.
Incremental shifts in perception – barely noticed by the target, if at all – are pivotal to propaganda in the 21st Century. Without their even realizing, tokers across the West received a strong dose of Xi Jinping Thought.
The photograph shows detainees in a “reeducation camp” in Lop Nor, Xinjiang, April 2017
To get a handle on how our minds are being toyed with very subtly by totalitarian states, check out the deep insights of Peter Pomerantsev:
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