One thing covid has thrown up is people who screech “wake up, sheeple,” at other people who they presume aren’t as “awake” as them. So rational people who think about things differently to them are put upon by the “Woke” and the “Awake.”
The mainstream media are pushing the far left agenda, so they’re actually a huge part of the problem we tend to complain about here…
There is some truth in that, but equally there is frustration that some people can't see the obvious. Again, I'd say don't look at what comes through your TV screen - instead, look at the legislation being passed in Western democracies. It's not pretty. You only have to read a Sun Tzu book on ancient wisdom regarding the theatre of war, to realise the west is well and truly f((ked.. and being destroyed from within with PURPOSE.
I don’t disagree with much of that, brother, but I think sometimes the way we frame or look at what’s happening is different. The idea that some of us are considered to be not awake simply because we disagree on certain aspects is a little presumptuous, I reckon. I have a niece who uses that exact “wake up sheeple” nonsense phrase and her only expertise is in pressing play on YouTube videos that she’s already predisposed to believe in anyway. The hardest thing sometimes is to question our own allegiances, with regard to what we believe in, and be ready to accept that we might sometimes be wrong…
"Allegiance" is a powerful word because it signals that you're a traitor if you go against the conventional thinking on who you're supposed to be allied with.
When somebody tells you they’ve spent hours and days examining the sources they agree with, but have dismissed the opposing view as being unworthy of their time because you can’t trust government, MSM are liars, their scientists are in the pocket etc, then it’s clear where their allegiances are. But it isn’t just that my niece (and others) refuse to do the hard yards for the opposing view, because that’s time consuming or whatever, it’s that they don’t hold their own views to the same level of critical examination that they hold their opponents.
The most honest method is to examine both of them, brother, to the best of our abilities.
I agree on all this but even still we get “news” from the MSM. The real issue here for me is political tribalism - and that fuels the MSM. So if you identify as Right-Wing/Conservative or Left-Wing/Progressive, and subscribe to the most unthinking, and least inquisitive member of either tribe, then there’s your problem. The MSM is only chucking sweets to the children. The people who are tribally compromised are the real problem, though.
Well, bear in mind that we’re discussing this on a forum, which is another example of bread and circuses. It’s a way to wile away the hours while real life is happening. But I agree with you to a large extent. The BBC incident was fairly revealing though. It was framed as an issue of free speech being quashed by right wing overlords in the Beeb, and yet the Beeb is not only an unreliable left wing propagandist sheet like the Guardian, but is also funded by the public, so there are issues of abuses here and how they got away with it that are fairly interesting in themselves…
I saw this. That was seriously gross. I don't know if there are cultural aspects I'm not aware of that make it non-sexual. But... eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww
you'll be amazed mate. There's some weird cultural shit that goes on that's non-sexual but one culture might see it one way the other might not. I'll give you an example... we in in the West might think it's ok for teenage girls to walk around wearing next to nothing. But think of it from a Saudi family's perspective. They would view that as pretty paedo shit right there...
