No one can force anybody to listen to the mainstream media. If people fail to think beyond what nonsense they hear and see, that's their choice. The majority is usually wrong and has lost all sensibility when it turns into a mob.
No one can force anybody to listen to the mainstream media. If people fail to think beyond what nonsense they hear and see, that's their choice. The majority is usually wrong and has lost all sensibility when it turns into a mob.
Think back over the last 20 years, if you are old enough. Were you wrong about anything? Did you ever trust the wrong person or group? I myself have been fooled into believing many things that I now know were completely false. It helps me keep things in context. No one is perfect, but can they admit they were duped? That, to me, is the key to redemption and healing.
You say that as if you don't know anyone who listens to NPR. I do. I know lots of people who do, and I was one myself, and I know exactly how that subtle propaganda can blind good and decent people.
Stop saying that it's all those stupid M-F's faults! Stop thinking that you're superior to "those people"! Good and decent people were lied to and since they were/are good and decent people, they believed the lies. Some of them are waking up.
Stop thinking that "those people" got what they deserved! For God's sake, the problem isn't the people, the problem is the lies.
We are one people. We were lied to and are being lied to still. Sometimes good and decent people can't believe that such insidious and nasty things could be done.
Do not fall into the trap Desmet set of dehumanizing us and saying it's all our fault.
Actually, I don't think that way at all. That "those people got what they deserved."
I've been of the assertion that if I believed the mass media and the 24/7 fear porn, I would be in the same boat. And I feel the undertow all the time. The main reaction I get on twitter for those so firmly ensconced in their beliefs is condescension, derision, and their responses to me are usually based on ad hominem attacks and appeal to experts.
But to degree, it is all of our faults. We all play a part. And those that exploited, manipulated, and conspired at the top are the most guilty. You think Desmet discounts them, where he has taken a more nuanced analysis that shows to what degree they have been involved.
Desmet does not dehumanize us. Not sure where you get that idea from at all.
He paints a very real portrait at what it means to be human, and that means not ignoring the bad that is in all of us.
And it's so easy to get sucked into some sort of scam or manipulation. That's why scammers abide.
No one can force anybody to listen to the mainstream media. If people fail to think beyond what nonsense they hear and see, that's their choice. The majority is usually wrong and has lost all sensibility when it turns into a mob.
Think back over the last 20 years, if you are old enough. Were you wrong about anything? Did you ever trust the wrong person or group? I myself have been fooled into believing many things that I now know were completely false. It helps me keep things in context. No one is perfect, but can they admit they were duped? That, to me, is the key to redemption and healing.
You say that as if you don't know anyone who listens to NPR. I do. I know lots of people who do, and I was one myself, and I know exactly how that subtle propaganda can blind good and decent people.
Stop saying that it's all those stupid M-F's faults! Stop thinking that you're superior to "those people"! Good and decent people were lied to and since they were/are good and decent people, they believed the lies. Some of them are waking up.
Stop thinking that "those people" got what they deserved! For God's sake, the problem isn't the people, the problem is the lies.
We are one people. We were lied to and are being lied to still. Sometimes good and decent people can't believe that such insidious and nasty things could be done.
Do not fall into the trap Desmet set of dehumanizing us and saying it's all our fault.
Jim Reagen
BOOM! SPOT ON!
Actually, I don't think that way at all. That "those people got what they deserved."
I've been of the assertion that if I believed the mass media and the 24/7 fear porn, I would be in the same boat. And I feel the undertow all the time. The main reaction I get on twitter for those so firmly ensconced in their beliefs is condescension, derision, and their responses to me are usually based on ad hominem attacks and appeal to experts.
But to degree, it is all of our faults. We all play a part. And those that exploited, manipulated, and conspired at the top are the most guilty. You think Desmet discounts them, where he has taken a more nuanced analysis that shows to what degree they have been involved.
Desmet does not dehumanize us. Not sure where you get that idea from at all.
He paints a very real portrait at what it means to be human, and that means not ignoring the bad that is in all of us.
And it's so easy to get sucked into some sort of scam or manipulation. That's why scammers abide.
I'm going to say something contradictory here:
Don't read Desmet's words. Read his concepts and his argument.
Try that.
I have.