Anyone who doesn’t see the warning signs is either historically or wilfully ignorant.
Which is why it’s so embarrassing – we live in the information age and these people are still falling for tricks from hundreds of years ago, despite being told specifically this would happen.
But we’re not in the correct-information-only age. There’s a lot of noise to filter out, and most people aren’t trained well enough to do that (i.e. critical thinking). I think that we may need to address that issue before things improve significantly at the political level.
But we’re not in the correct-information-only age. There’s a lot of noise to filter out, and most people aren’t trained well enough to do that (i.e. critical thinking).
I think my point is it’s not ‘most people’ being untrained, because apparently women are not falling for the same thing. So we clearly already have the tools, just men (by and large) aren’t using them.
Fascism is an expression of innate qualities of human psychology. It’s barely even meaningful to consider it a political philosophy, it’s no more than exploitation of induced fear and hatred for political ends. It will never go away.
I don’t think it’s helpful to think of our family, neighbours, and friends who find comfort in fascism as stupid. They are scared, not stupid. They’re doing stupid things, but intelligence is no defense against emotional manipulation.
We didn’t say they were stupid, we said wilfully ignorant, which they are quite literally being. Women aren’t doing the same thing, so it’s clear there are ways around it that men aren’t using.
I think it’s likely that we’re just so used to being catered to, that as soon as we aren’t, we start to throw tantrums and demand to be the centre of attention again. Like these numbers aren’t just bad, they’re terminal: Boomers are less conservative than men 35 and under.
We’re fucked if we stay on this path. Why would the Cons care to actually do what they promised to if half of all men will vote for them no-matter what they do?
Fascism does a really good job speaking to the anxieties and insecurities of men. Even young men. Especially young men.
Anyone who doesn’t see the warning signs is either historically or willfully ignorant.
Which is why it’s so embarrassing – we live in the information age and these people are still falling for tricks from hundreds of years ago, despite being told specifically this would happen.
But we’re not in the correct-information-only age. There’s a lot of noise to filter out, and most people aren’t trained well enough to do that (i.e. critical thinking). I think that we may need to address that issue before things improve significantly at the political level.
I think my point is it’s not ‘most people’ being untrained, because apparently women are not falling for the same thing. So we clearly already have the tools, just men (by and large) aren’t using them.
Fascism is an expression of innate qualities of human psychology. It’s barely even meaningful to consider it a political philosophy, it’s no more than exploitation of induced fear and hatred for political ends. It will never go away.
I don’t think it’s helpful to think of our family, neighbours, and friends who find comfort in fascism as stupid. They are scared, not stupid. They’re doing stupid things, but intelligence is no defense against emotional manipulation.
We didn’t say they were stupid, we said wilfully ignorant, which they are quite literally being. Women aren’t doing the same thing, so it’s clear there are ways around it that men aren’t using.
Or, that the psyop techniques researched a decade ago are just much more effective on men… </tinfoilhat>
I think it’s likely that we’re just so used to being catered to, that as soon as we aren’t, we start to throw tantrums and demand to be the centre of attention again. Like these numbers aren’t just bad, they’re terminal: Boomers are less conservative than men 35 and under.
We’re fucked if we stay on this path. Why would the Cons care to actually do what they promised to if half of all men will vote for them no-matter what they do?