Colt47 wrote:I don't know, if I was getting bombarded by propaganda like that when I was a teen I'd probably go find a magic user and beg em to teach me how to do that.
As for the commenter report with the guy getting chewed on by a D-bee... Well I guess I'd be asking myself where the d-bees are and then probably notice a lot of dead everything in the area. Even in a society like the Coalition states there will always be skeptics when it comes to T.V. Reports. I've seen propaganda in real life now and I can tell you that it's hard to make propaganda information fit when other information conflicts with the propaganda.
This is addressed in the black vault book belive it or not. (( I only know because I was reading it last night))
In the CS Cities the populas are 98% anti magic and only 2% of the population would even think to give it a chance.
This goes up in the new town burbs and stuff but in the cities, at least, the masterful spin of propaganda has indeed worked.
And people forget.... the people in the CS Cities don't "see" any good magic use so they have nothing to weigh on that side.
All they're shown is the evil and demonic and if you're only shown that, it's easy to see magic as evil and demonic.
They're not stupid. They're being kept forcefully ignorant.
It's addressed in the book that the way it's done, the populas doesn't even realize the CS is spinning stuff. They think honestly, that's just how magic is. Evil and corrupt.
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