>> At the very least that ordinary Russians ar culpable for not doing anything.
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Apparently 80% believe the denazification stuff. It seems hard to believe that Russia can control news so absolutely as to achieve this so maybe a lot of those have just decided to go with the flow.
They might well be unable to distinguish truth from fiction, after decades under governments that routinely decide their own truth even when there seems no good reason for it.
It should be far more difficult now to suppress facts than it was say 50 or 100 years ago but the opposite seems to be true. Once politicians discovered that they could just lie, as long as they followed popular prejudices, the truth became very hard to distinguish even in a free society.
What is really tragic is that even our own politicians play the same game. They aren't as extreme as Putin but once the truth and integrity have been tossed aside its hard to see how it can go into reverse.
In our own way I think we have been manipulated for years. The whole 'small government' thing is just a way of saying it's OK for the ruling class and its clients to hang on to all the wealth. Surely the job of government is to do things for people. How have we reached the point where a majority consistently votes for governments that pledge to do as little as possible, which is what promising tax cuts really is?
Education is the antidote. But it has been pushed out by the national curriculum. I don't postulate that as a conspiracy, I think it's just evolved from human degeneracy.
As you were.
Last edited by: Manatee on Mon 4 Apr 22 at 09:04
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