Nah, if it was communist propaganda, it would mean that you get no material reward compared to anyone else, but could count on the teacher to pass on a good word for you with the principal, who then might mention your name positively at an education board meeting, who then might mention you to the mayor, the governor, etc, and now you have a real shot of becoming dictator of the single-party government that rules your country.
Value not consumer prizes and instead seek nepotistic alliances, for through them will the material comforts flow.—Mao, probably.
That’s more media than school. But my understanding of it is that it kind of did. Mostly for people who frequent airports and Muslims than anyone else though
Airport security is by far the most identifiable change for me personally. We never used to take shoes or belts off at airport security, we never walked through backscatter x-ray machines, we could carry liquids onto the plane and you could see your family or friends off at the departure gate even if you didn’t have a boarding pass.
Guessing you mean in your post-2001 books, but this comment has me imagining a Black Mirror style thing where there’s this future prediction in everyone’s school books that all the teachers refuse to talk about.
The book “Fall, or Dodge in Hell” has this as a key subplot that people just follow hallucinating meme generating AI feeds untill they are totally brainwashed into doing whatever it hallucinates they should do next
One time I went in with the intent to buy some big stuff. Ended up changing my mind but I needed gloves… So I had one of these but just a pair of gloves sitting on it lol
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