"Vuvuzela no iphone 100 gorillion dead" is a meme because what you describe is such a pervasive phenomenon. Really, as Roderic Day asserts, people just want a license to believe that the system that they believe benefits them is morally just. The way out is showing that a better world is indeed possible.
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We might just have to wait for China to definitively surpass the west, and act as an example of what could be.
My favorite is “I lived through the Cold War”, as though being a veteran of propaganda saturation makes them an authority.
I lived through the cold war and believed most of the propaganda. The layers of the propaganda onion are seemingly infinite. It took about 20 years to peel them all.
I lived through the Cold War
I hate this too. "I lived through the Cold War" So did every human being alive right now over the age of like 40, who cares? You literally didn't do anything during that time but be alive. You have no special insight
the other alternate version "i lived through communism" is just as dumb if not dumber.
If you want to understand the itch that tinyman square scratches for some people online, and why they’re hostile toward attempts at dispelling those myths, read False Witness from the “Brainwashing” series.
Oh thanks, I love me some Red Sails. :)
start flawlessly regurgitating anti-communist talking points with zero cognitive friction.
My dad, the ultimate lib, is like this. You can’t even interrupt him since the program’s still running in his brain.
‘Yeah, it’s great if the country could climb out of poverty like China, but having democracy and freedom is important’
The freedom to starve if you can't find a job fast enough in "insert any capitalist country" and never see any real improvement in your life is a foundamental part of democracy that we must defend!