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Yeah, he’s a menace, etc. But I’m more interested in why so many Americans have lost faith in the corporate-MSM and turned to wackos like Alex. Similar to Trump.
Many many people just dont trust the system anymore. (I’m one of them)
A lot of those un-trusting-people have turned to wackos.I guess this is ‘part’ of it for some people:
“…But it wasn’t the politics that initially drew me in. Jones had a way of imbuing the world with mystery, adding a layer of cinematic verisimilitude that caught my attention. Suddenly, I was no longer a bored kid attending an overpriced art school. I was Fox Mulder combing through the X-Files, Rod Serling opening a door to the Twilight Zone,..”Jones gives them ‘meaning’ somehow. Turns dull lives into a grand sci-fi-mystery-adventure. Or somethin. I dunno.
Another way to look at it, iz, capitalism made a shitload of citizens really ignorant and the chickens are coming home to roost.
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vThe people who turn to Infowars and Breitbart for their news distrust the MSM for different reasons than you.
They distrust the MSM because they believe it to be part of the liberal/socialist agenda.
I don’t want to speak for you, but I believe you distrust the media because of its corporate association and it’s use to further the capitalist agenda.
There’s a giant chasm between those two viewpoints.
Infowars and Breitbart make up stories that cater to the prejudices of their followers. They try to inflame those prejudices. The MSM will sometimes flat out lie, but their failures more often relate to their stories lacking context and thoroughness. You only get part of the story, or you only get one perspective of the story – generally the perspective that favors the powers that be.
But leftists have little in common with the people who turned to Infowars other than a mistrust of MSM.
Well, i have no doubt I’m a hypocrite in a gajillion ways, and i dont have any clear, unified, solutions-thots on this stuff, but when i talk about a dummed-down public i AINT talkin about the Trump Voters. I’m talkin about the Harvard PHDs as well.
For example, if i was doin a video like that, mine would be about how dummed down the college-educated folks were AS WEll AS the never-been-to-college folks. My vid would be about how dummed-down you have to be to vote mainstream-DEM as well as how dummed down you have to be to vote Republican.
That video seemed to me like the usual stuff we get from libs about how smart the libs are and how dum the Reps are.
In my view things are way worse than just dummed-down-trump-voters. Thats only half the story.
Having said that, I like that guy in the vid. This is just my usual magnifying minor differences, probly.
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vBy “dummed-down” what you’re really talking about is “propagandized”, right? Regardless of level of education or intelligence, we are all susceptible to propaganda. Maybe under certain circumstances, it’s easier to be propagandized if you are uneducated, but everyone’s belief system can be shaped by it.
There are plenty of smart, educated, people who think autism is caused by vaccines. Many of those same people think steaming their vaginas or wearing a crystal around their neck is beneficial to their health.
Since we all can be and are influenced by propaganda, to combat that we first have to be aware of that and then be willing to regularly challenge our own belief systems.
Actually, we did run into Jason, but fortunately the Carrot Creature from “Lost in Space” was with us so Jason ran off crying like a wee girl…
