I don't think anyone that says they're not effected by the propaganda realize they are already effected by it. Either personally or by the community they live in. In today's society there is almost no escape from propaganda one way or another. The globally pumped music, global search engines, news agencies, cinema, social media, mobile phones, etc...
Anything that's globally marketted is propaganda or a tool for it. Look at how many people are using social media. But how many of them are there that read books as much as they follow and consume social media or so called influencer bullshit. 20 years ago these influencer people will be beaten up or ridiculed. But today more and more children/teens are growing up to see them as someone to be, role models...
I'm over 40 years old and I've been lucky enough that my father gave me a deep rooted love to read and research anything and everything that raises my interests. This lead me to become a lawyer. I've seen so much shit where people can't even see the simplest logical thing to do. Either by way of conditioning or lack off capacity or total ignorance. It's like telling someone not to step on the dog shit and show them where the dog shit is and the first thing they do is step on it (this is a personal real and literal experience). Hell when I was in highschool almost nobody knew English. Now almost all the children and teens are using English words in our their daily language, they are doing stupid shit they see from social media and this is happening everywhere in the world. Foreign/Western concepts and culture infiltrating their minds and world views one way or another.
Another very real example is the Islamic extremists. They are literally the result of the Western/CIA propaganda to fight the Soviets. Now once secular and peaceful countries are fucked up with these extremist idiots.
As to how we're here, as many other commenters already said people who read and educate themselves, people who are curious and research are mostly able to see obvious bullshit and tell that it's bullshit! But make no mistake we are not far from the propaganda nor immune to it.
Here are my thoughts about the issue;
I don't think anyone that says they're not effected by the propaganda realize they are already effected by it. Either personally or by the community they live in. In today's society there is almost no escape from propaganda one way or another. The globally pumped music, global search engines, news agencies, cinema, social media, mobile phones, etc...
Anything that's globally marketted is propaganda or a tool for it. Look at how many people are using social media. But how many of them are there that read books as much as they follow and consume social media or so called influencer bullshit. 20 years ago these influencer people will be beaten up or ridiculed. But today more and more children/teens are growing up to see them as someone to be, role models...
I'm over 40 years old and I've been lucky enough that my father gave me a deep rooted love to read and research anything and everything that raises my interests. This lead me to become a lawyer. I've seen so much shit where people can't even see the simplest logical thing to do. Either by way of conditioning or lack off capacity or total ignorance. It's like telling someone not to step on the dog shit and show them where the dog shit is and the first thing they do is step on it (this is a personal real and literal experience). Hell when I was in highschool almost nobody knew English. Now almost all the children and teens are using English words in our their daily language, they are doing stupid shit they see from social media and this is happening everywhere in the world. Foreign/Western concepts and culture infiltrating their minds and world views one way or another. Another very real example is the Islamic extremists. They are literally the result of the Western/CIA propaganda to fight the Soviets. Now once secular and peaceful countries are fucked up with these extremist idiots.
As to how we're here, as many other commenters already said people who read and educate themselves, people who are curious and research are mostly able to see obvious bullshit and tell that it's bullshit! But make no mistake we are not far from the propaganda nor immune to it.