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Textbook JAFAAC, needs to go.
Current:
No, the other one.
The examples of the trope seems kinda split between "someone's overly paranoid" and "actual conspiracy". Which is it, or is it both? The description seems to aim at the former, and all images aim at the latter.
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Doesn't really matter. The trope concept is about a conspiracy that relies on mind control. The description can be clearer, though.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
No, the other one.
You're saying the trope definition doesn't matter when it comes to picking an image?
Yes, it matters, and if you mean to answer "both" just say so.
If that's the case, I think 4.3 is probably the best one. 4.2 seems less to be about a conspiracy and more about commercials brainwashing you into buying their products.
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Bad word choice on my part, sorry. The trope doesnt require the conspiracy to be actual; it can either exist for real or just in someone's paranoia.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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I prefer 4.3 for exactly that same reason.
I do not think the original is quite JAFAC, but the suggestions are better.
edited 25th Jun '14 9:38:08 AM by rexpensive
I just looked at 4.3, and, uh, you people really think that (public) education is a mind control conspiracy?!? Or does it not matter to you that the point of the cartoon is that the process has absolutely nothing to do with actual mind control?
And great, an Example As Thesis description that does absolutely nothing to help me understand whether this trope is about conspiracies or paranoia.
edited 25th Jun '14 7:53:47 PM by Leaper
No, the other one.
It's someone dictacting how they should think (square, not round). It's not about what we think school is about, but what that image actually illustrates.
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Clock is set. I've pulled the current.
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Okay... so there's a guy on a throne, flanked by two guards, talking to a guy...
How exactly does this demonstrate a Mind-Control Conspiracy, or any sort of conspiracy at all?
The caption "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" simply serves to raise more questions than it answers.
Unless you know anything about Avatar: The Last Airbender (which, I suppose, this is a reference to) it doesn't even make any efforts to hint that this trope could be in effect, much less properly visualise it.
Motion to pull.
I don't recommend replacing it with another image though, as this trope is generally tricky to visualise effectively.
edited 24th Jun '14 4:31:16 PM by jeez