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    Not just "socialists" who're "so dumb".Educated+dumb+comfortable egotists love the status quo Archived Message

    Posted by Jim_Carlucci on April 9, 2023, 10:27 am, in reply to "Re: Chambers interviewed by Khalek."

    All too self-consumed and wrapped up in their own comfortable little worlds - they love to see the same familiar confident talking heads on TV hand-in-hand - like Bond, M and Q - with America, Hollywood, wealthy US and UK stars bonding cosily and "hilariously" on endless talk shows validating and perpetuating the (for them) cosy cosseted status quo.
    Geopolitical ignorance, compliance, wilful amnesia = continued bliss.

    One of my sisters is a typical exemplar: she, like me, ex-working class and council estate - but then Oxford Univ.(me - Cambridge). As a teen and to this day she has never shown the slightest interest in or motivation to independently research big issues, talk geopolitics, never read newspapers as a teen or twenty-something - yet after Oxford decided on a career in the media for all the wrong reasons: glamour, money, getting her face on TV, dinner parties with confident buzzy affluent influential people etc.

    She was of course dead wrong and clueless on Iraq's WMD etc - yet still responded and responds to repeatedly vindicated truth-tellers like myself with incurably, wilfully dumb, eye-rolling, self-impressed phrases such as:

    "There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there - especially on the internet and Youtube".

    Beggars belief. She worked in radio, then briefly as a roving news reporter for Yorkshire TV then with her affluent dinner-party-loving hubby produced many TV series/progs for the BBC etc.

    These people simply want to live comfortably in their own little worlds and accept whatever is necessary to preserve the status quo. And powerful glamourous star-studded, largely white Caucasian affluent/rich Americans are subconsciously, consciously, instinctively and unquestioningly perceived as their natural and essential protectors, saviours and tribal soulmates.
    Come what may.

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