I'm afraid many, if not most, Europeans (maybe it's the same in other places) developed a kind of death wish. I see more and more people openly advocating for nuclear war if Russia is not "completely defeated". They have no idea what they're talking about, but go out of the way to insult, attack, censor, or even threaten whoever has a modicum of common sense and decency. Sometimes it looks like Portugal (where I live) is one of those Baltic countries, such is the level of Russophobia.
The media here are a complete disgrace. They not only shamelessly manipulate their audiences, appealing to the most basic sentimentalism, but also -- and this might be even worse -- omit any news that might be detrimental to the "war effort", and there are so many of them. Most "war correspondents" basically sit in their hotel rooms in Kiev and other cities waiting for the Ukrainian government to tell them where to go and what to report.
And the commentators... It's really rock bottom. The majority are utterly ignorant but pontificate as if they were sages. And those who certainly know what's going on lie with all their teeth. The very few exceptions are some retired officers who are, of course, smeared as "Russian agents" or "Putinists", or (even more ridiculous) "Communists".
I've never seen something like that. Looks like America in 2003, but worse. And the question is: how can we argue with idiots?
A slave doesn't have to make decisions. A slave doesn't have to take responsibility.
Besides, the life of a house slave can be pretty comfortable, at least, relative to a field slave. Didn't Borrell say something about Europe as a "garden" and the rest of the world as a jungle?
But when the class war comes to the point where you have the tough choice of possibly risking your career, getting beaten or blinded by militarized police in a peaceful protest, or having your bank account frozen just because you took part in a trucking protest, or attempt vocally resisting the fascist Elites in charge - then it takes some real courage to rebel.
Hard part is to remove the state of denial one is in that Western society is reaching that point of not only state censorship on all levels, and the ability to quietly take anyone in and imprison them on trumped up charges of whatever, "eco terrorism" or "disinformation", - and then you are faced with that hard historical choice of whether to bend the knee and your head, or rebel and face severe consequences.
What media scholars can take from this whole mess is that television is still the most influential media -- by far. And newspapers keep being relevant. For all the wrong reasons.
With idiots by definition you cannot. The system succeeded in creating so many of them. So until something happens to it any arguments with its products are futile.
Here, in France, it's the same problem. A majority of people who have no critical spirit, who take for granted all the propaganda of the right-thinking press and who look at you sideways when you have the audacity to show them the imbecility of their remarks. It's exhausting. It is true that with a donkey, one does not reason: one pushes it or pulls it.
I'm afraid many, if not most, Europeans (maybe it's the same in other places) developed a kind of death wish. I see more and more people openly advocating for nuclear war if Russia is not "completely defeated". They have no idea what they're talking about, but go out of the way to insult, attack, censor, or even threaten whoever has a modicum of common sense and decency. Sometimes it looks like Portugal (where I live) is one of those Baltic countries, such is the level of Russophobia.
The media here are a complete disgrace. They not only shamelessly manipulate their audiences, appealing to the most basic sentimentalism, but also -- and this might be even worse -- omit any news that might be detrimental to the "war effort", and there are so many of them. Most "war correspondents" basically sit in their hotel rooms in Kiev and other cities waiting for the Ukrainian government to tell them where to go and what to report.
And the commentators... It's really rock bottom. The majority are utterly ignorant but pontificate as if they were sages. And those who certainly know what's going on lie with all their teeth. The very few exceptions are some retired officers who are, of course, smeared as "Russian agents" or "Putinists", or (even more ridiculous) "Communists".
I've never seen something like that. Looks like America in 2003, but worse. And the question is: how can we argue with idiots?
Europeans *like* being slaves.
A slave doesn't have to make decisions. A slave doesn't have to take responsibility.
Besides, the life of a house slave can be pretty comfortable, at least, relative to a field slave. Didn't Borrell say something about Europe as a "garden" and the rest of the world as a jungle?
Not only Europeans but Americans as well.
But when the class war comes to the point where you have the tough choice of possibly risking your career, getting beaten or blinded by militarized police in a peaceful protest, or having your bank account frozen just because you took part in a trucking protest, or attempt vocally resisting the fascist Elites in charge - then it takes some real courage to rebel.
Hard part is to remove the state of denial one is in that Western society is reaching that point of not only state censorship on all levels, and the ability to quietly take anyone in and imprison them on trumped up charges of whatever, "eco terrorism" or "disinformation", - and then you are faced with that hard historical choice of whether to bend the knee and your head, or rebel and face severe consequences.
Many people think what they are told to think.
What media scholars can take from this whole mess is that television is still the most influential media -- by far. And newspapers keep being relevant. For all the wrong reasons.
You are being facetious?
With idiots by definition you cannot. The system succeeded in creating so many of them. So until something happens to it any arguments with its products are futile.
Yes, but it's annoying because I have to keep my mouth shut while listening to inane babblings every single day. Thank God there's the internet.
Here, in France, it's the same problem. A majority of people who have no critical spirit, who take for granted all the propaganda of the right-thinking press and who look at you sideways when you have the audacity to show them the imbecility of their remarks. It's exhausting. It is true that with a donkey, one does not reason: one pushes it or pulls it.
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