I have wondered about people's blindspots.. and came to a conclusion that it's too hard to accept deceptions from your leaders.. since leaders are voted for (kindof) then to accept we are part of the problem is a hard realization.
Good point, you might be correct. But still, people can't directly control them and there are countless ways how they could avoid responsibility. So no need to feel much guilt for them maybe.
Well they are achieving rather a lot right now including our king Charles if you can call him that!! The way it’s going we will be a third world country soon enough and it looks like America is going the same way bring down the strongest first the rest will be easy!!!
To quote from your essay: "..Political situation in our countries affects our lives directly, we are engaged into our politics, and ironically it blinds us to it. ..."
In my experience, the majority of citizens that I know are NOT realistically engaged in politics. They are attracted to the trivia of personality images of political identities without any consideration of the substance or intent of policy. Idolatry to "red" or "blue" ribbons and slogans without the ability to verbalise the technical differences between the philosophy of one party against another renders political opinions meaningless. This is exactly what main stream media does at the behest of the propaganda generators. It has become the "opiate for the masses". Thus bar room and family dinner table discussions of politics are vacuous. Rational objective analysis of critical and existential issues does not occur. Hence we are cursed with a political system that lacks credibility and transparency in every aspect of its governance - it depends on electoral ignorance for survival.
Maybe but I think it has more to do with partisan politics maybe? So it's easy for Americans to spot bad guys on the 'other side' but not on their own.
Our education system has moved from training people how to think to giving reverence and compliance to the so called expert class. People refuse to accept the evil that lives among us
So Alex, what do you think of Putin's offer for relaxed immigration guidelines for Americans who object to the "woke" ideology here in the US? Is it just propoganda? Or maybe it was just a rumor, only I heard it from several people on substack. Doesnt make it true tho.
Even if that's true, it's just posing and pretending. And if some Americans would be gullible enough to use this 'offer', they would soon find out that Putin's Russia is far worse than even Woke America.
I dont know if you saw Greg Reese's broadcasts from Russia but it was quite convincing-keeping in mind he reports for Info Wars & I dont like Alex Jones
At the height of the cold war, the Soviet leader seeks to reduce tensions with the US.
The Russian leader is assassinated in public. His chief rival, who supports more military spending, is immediately sworn in as president.
No one is ever found guilty in a court of law for the killing.
If this had really happened in the Soviet Union, Americans would conclude that a coup had occurred.
Yet this very scenario played out in Dallas decades ago and no one in power is willing to even suggest that a coup happened.
Very good example, thanks!
I have wondered about people's blindspots.. and came to a conclusion that it's too hard to accept deceptions from your leaders.. since leaders are voted for (kindof) then to accept we are part of the problem is a hard realization.
Good point, you might be correct. But still, people can't directly control them and there are countless ways how they could avoid responsibility. So no need to feel much guilt for them maybe.
I think the reason they see foreign conspiracies and not domestic ones, is because they are told to believe one and not the other.
That might be but they should be able to think themselves though, or can they do it still?
Tell me about it
It amazes me how many still don’t know who the WEF are!!!
Or know but believe they have 'no real power'.
Well they are achieving rather a lot right now including our king Charles if you can call him that!! The way it’s going we will be a third world country soon enough and it looks like America is going the same way bring down the strongest first the rest will be easy!!!
So frustrating these fools who can’t see it!
To quote from your essay: "..Political situation in our countries affects our lives directly, we are engaged into our politics, and ironically it blinds us to it. ..."
In my experience, the majority of citizens that I know are NOT realistically engaged in politics. They are attracted to the trivia of personality images of political identities without any consideration of the substance or intent of policy. Idolatry to "red" or "blue" ribbons and slogans without the ability to verbalise the technical differences between the philosophy of one party against another renders political opinions meaningless. This is exactly what main stream media does at the behest of the propaganda generators. It has become the "opiate for the masses". Thus bar room and family dinner table discussions of politics are vacuous. Rational objective analysis of critical and existential issues does not occur. Hence we are cursed with a political system that lacks credibility and transparency in every aspect of its governance - it depends on electoral ignorance for survival.
Maybe Americans are shallow, started when they stopped teaching the classics in school.
Maybe but I think it has more to do with partisan politics maybe? So it's easy for Americans to spot bad guys on the 'other side' but not on their own.
Our education system has moved from training people how to think to giving reverence and compliance to the so called expert class. People refuse to accept the evil that lives among us
Sadly too true.
So Alex, what do you think of Putin's offer for relaxed immigration guidelines for Americans who object to the "woke" ideology here in the US? Is it just propoganda? Or maybe it was just a rumor, only I heard it from several people on substack. Doesnt make it true tho.
Even if that's true, it's just posing and pretending. And if some Americans would be gullible enough to use this 'offer', they would soon find out that Putin's Russia is far worse than even Woke America.
I dont know if you saw Greg Reese's broadcasts from Russia but it was quite convincing-keeping in mind he reports for Info Wars & I dont like Alex Jones