You believe you have free will?🎭

Show Notes The philosophical case that free will is mostly an illusion — shaped by choices your parents and environment made before you ever had a say What propaganda actually is, and why the people most confident they can't be manipulated are often the easiest targets How propaganda operated in Nigeria historically — through news coverage and even entertainment like Super Story The claim that today's social media algorithms function as a modern, more precise version of the same thing — engineered by platforms operating under foreign governments Why "Nigerians just like brain rot content" is a myth — and the 90/10 argument for how algorithms are tuned to keep it that way Connecting this to Maslow's hierarchy of needs — why people focused on survival don't have the cognitive space to fight their algorithm A practical, if difficult, case for deliberately retraining your feed On skit-makers, comedians, and content creators — why the reward system, not individual creators, is the actual problem Closing honestly: he doesn't have a clean answer for what to do about all of this Is it really true that Nigerians just don't like valuable content — or is your feed designed to make sure you never see enough of it to prove otherwise? Koke starts with a philosophical case against free will, then pulls the thread into propaganda: how it worked in Nigeria's media history, and how it works now through algorithms controlled by platforms operating under foreign governments. His claim is direct — if you're stuck consuming "brain rot" content, it's not your taste, it's the design, and it's tied to where you sit on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. He makes the case for fighting it anyway, names the tension around content creators caught inside a broken reward system, and ends without pretending he has a clean answer. BRAINDROPPINGS WHATSAPP DISCUSSION GROUP ★ Support this podcast ★