- Really RG? Archived Message
Posted by scrabb
on August 5, 2019, 6:33 pm, in reply to "All the people 'killed' are actors, as are their relatives, as are shooters, most have "
|
Course not. He knows he hasn't a leg to stand on. The dissident evidence about ALL those events will drown him if he tries ... What dissident evidence is that? You accuse Jon Monro of being "evidence-lite" but so are you in this regard. Have you ever been to the US? From your posts it would seem not. I have to echo Tomski on the paranoia one sees, feels and smells in the US. We have American friends in Florida and Washington State. We have visited them both on numerous occasions over twenty years and they have stayed with us in the UK -- and we've taken them to Ireland, Scotland, Wales and many parts of England. We wouldn't have remained friends over such a period if we didn't like them and love being with them. They are generous, welcoming, somewhat naive and extremely US-egocentric. (Is that a word?) Over the years I have come to view most Americans as being excitable teenagers. Their history is young and they haven't advanced to anything like maturity in thought and outlook. So much of their culture, entertainment, food is at the teenage level. The iconic American meal is cheeseburger and fries with Coke -- teenage grub. Imagine a society of teenagers, notoriously unstable because their hormones are all over the place, being given guns and cars to play with, and that's what you get in American society. Many of them I've met are sceptical of the mass media and say they don't believe what they see and hear -- and yet the opinions they trot out are almost exclusively formed by that media. I don't know if you'd term that cognitive dissonance in the strict sense because they're blissfully unaware of this paradox whereas cognitive dissonance to me means an almost wilful desire to deceive oneself. As to the paranoia, they have every reason to feel it and be afraid of it. Our Florida friends picked us up at the airport in Miami and were stuck in a long slow line of traffic trying to leave the parking lot because someone in the car at the ticket booth was arguing with the attendant. Our friend got out of the car to see what was happening and his wife said in a flash: "Donald, get back in this car right this instant! There could be somebody back there with a gun." He did. On another visit to a cousin who lived in Cleveland, in 1983, he and his wife picked me up at the Greyhound station (and if you want to see a bunch of crazies in the flesh, visit any Greyhound bus terminal) and as we were driving to a restaurant his wife said, "Slow down at the lights, Harry, but don't stop," and looking over her shoulder at me, "Make sure your door is locked." You don't have to be in the US very long before feeling paranoid yourself. It's everywhere. |