• @[email protected]
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    467 months ago

    There’s a great part in the book 1984 where they talk about how the elite 1% control everything and 85% are just living off the scraps. The remaining 14% see themselves as prospective elites, though they live only marginally better than the 85%. The elites promise that if only they defend the 1% hard enough, and do everything they’re told they should do, then one day they might be let into the elite crowd.

    I think George Orwell was describing centrists as that 14%. The defenders of the status quo.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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      117 months ago

      I think that, in the “Global North”, the % is higher. It’s a bit tricky to define the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” class.

    • @Wooki
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      -77 months ago

      Swing

      And a complete miss

      • Flying Squid
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        37 months ago

        The fun thing about fiction is that you can interpret it however you like and not be wrong.

        • @Wooki
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          7 months ago

          No. Create any narrativeto support the propaganda and its still propaganda.

          Please. Wont somebody think of the children! !!11!!

          You’re undermining your own cause.

          • Flying Squid
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            57 months ago

            Sorry… you’re saying there’s a right way and a wrong way to interpret something that isn’t real?

            Which religious sect do you belong to?

          • @Clent
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            07 months ago

            Which part is the propaganda?