AUDIO: The sinister surrogate power of the screen

If I said television, the news, Netflix and Amazon are all weaponised propaganda, cynical flickering hypnosis to deceive us, most people would agree with me.

But what if we’re being equally hoodwinked by other forms of flickering screen content that we haven’t developed the same vigilant guards against?

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