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== Cultural Pacification == | == Cultural Pacification == | ||
[[File: | [[File:Cultural pacification.png|alt=Cultural pacification.|thumb|'''Figure 2'''. Cultural pacification.]] | ||
Media, [[computer games]], smartphones and certain medicines 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 babies have a need for soothing with milk from the mother's teat, adults have more complicated desires. ''Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occurred as our inventions provide an escape for our warriors (Figure 2)? Is the [[bread and circuses]] analogy true?'' | Media, [[computer games]], smartphones and certain medicines 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 babies have a need for soothing with milk from the mother's teat, adults have more complicated desires. ''Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occurred as our inventions provide an escape for our warriors (Figure 2)? Is the [[bread and circuses]] analogy true?'' | ||