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 == Cultural Pacification ==
-Smartphones are not unlike adult pacifiers.<ref>Shiri Melumad, Michel Tuan Pham, The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology, ''Journal of Consumer Research'', Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 237–255, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa005</nowiki></ref> Whilst a baby will have a need for milk and the mothers teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as computer games provide an escape for our warriors?
+Static media, computer games, smartphones are not unlike adult pacifiers.<ref>Shiri Melumad, Michel Tuan Pham, The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology, ''Journal of Consumer Research'', Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 237–255, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa005</nowiki></ref> Whilst a baby will have a need for milk and the mothers teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as our inventions provide an escape for our warriors?
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