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New book reveals Tiananmen square massacre, others fabricated by US
(english.almayadeen.net)
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Definitely. Americans in particular are surrounded by media that affirms and reaffirms their supposed greatness, but libs across the west believe similar stuff and it's not just because they're in an echo chamber. emizeko shared this article that goes into another aspect of liberal myth making: westerners agree with this shit because they want to.
I think everyone is well aware of how little change they can truly effect within liberal democracy. How much carnage their governments cause at home and abroad. What happens to people who protest... Accepting that all the people our government subjugates deserve it brings a sort of comfort. Pride, even.
I do disagree with the article somewhat. Though it is probably more splitting hairs than anything else.
From my point of view it seems less that they want to believe it, and more that they aren't given the tools to properly analyze it. They are given fiction as their "tool" for understanding the world, and when the propaganda resembles their fiction, they don't question it because it matches their toolset.
Of course, there's still no excuse for not breaking out of that pattern and refusing to learn more. I agree with the article there. I'd say almost everyone here did at some point, even under awful circumstances where it would've been much easier to just "switch off" and remain content. Though intellectual laziness is one of the biggest virtues in the west.
That's true. Though being politically illiterate doesn't explain why libs are so incurious, to the point of dismissing evidence before even looking at it. Their ignorance is willful to an extent because they know on some level that they benefit materially from playing along. Or if they don't benefit, then they can at least avoid getting punished for rocking the boat.
Yeah, I can't ascribe much agency or self awareness to the us burgerosie. I'll grant that most of them have normal human faculties but the ones i interact with are profoundly ignorant and incurious to the point where they might as well be ayerdales for all the intellectual function they utilize
"Burgerosie" is much more fun than "labour aristocracy."