I've always taken that, more specifically with the far right, for them to justify beliefs or world views they hold as the vast majority of people would think otherwise.

For example: 'All my neo Nazi, religious extremist, Left wing bo**ocks etc nonsense on [insert social media platform] have 2,000 likes, therefore I must be on to something as there are at the very least others who share my views.'

As opposed to: 'Of all the millions of those who have heard, seen or are aware of my views only a couple thousand agree, which is an astonishingly low proportion of people.'

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Why I should have listened to Garry Kasparov about Putin - [Link]

Its also the sounding board scenario which also happened with Brexit and the Election. All sides convinced they would win because everyone they talk to agrees with them. The fact that they exclusively talk/chat with like minded souls is neither hear nor there.

I have fun calling out BS posted on Facebook etc, don't care which side its from BS is BS! I get called a lefty and a fascist.

Glad I am not the only one who shares this experience. The echo chamber effect has a lot to answer for! If you are able to create some sort of vacuum in reality based around a singular perspective of the world it's only ever going to have a severe detriment to your mental health, surely?

I've been seriously stunned by myself sometimes how a bit of internet reading or watching etc can get you 'hyped' about a certain idea(s), then further shocked when faced with a situation in which I do not represent what I had previously indulged in or just in general, leave the house, into reality, and reflect, somewhat acknowledging 'wow I got really caught up in that briefly' as though I'd been momentarily, psychologically hijacked.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

"The irony of the situation,” the head of the [Kharkiv] museum’s foreign art department told Reuters, “is that we are having to save Russian artists’ works from their own people.”

Everyone else is able to benefits from this war except those directly involved. Ukraine has been bombed so heavily they'll havw to rely on NATO to rebuild (in closer alignment with EU institutions). And Russia will be tied economically to China, used as a pound shop energy equivalent.

Edited by BlueJay (17 Mar 2022 12.25am)

The typical person isn't particularly political and they 'believe' what the media feed to them. The proof of this is historical and can even be seen in Russia now....just as I believe it can be seen here as well.

The control of language is used to convince people that there is a kind of moral superiority in concepts, which is a kind of 'end of history' make believe, as in reality those concepts just push whatever agendas the elites of the current power structure desire.

I keep hearing how what I think is on the 'fringe', yet at the same time I'm told that those ideas aren't allowed to be spread and should be banned from the political process. It's also ignored that I don't have a single idea that wasn't held commonly only decades ago.

For myself I try to ignore the language and look at the practical outcomes of the politics. That is what took me from the centralist positions that the media and politicians, you regard as normal, sold to me back....and instead travel back to the social conservativism that use to be commonplace in this once socially cohesive country.

I'm not interested in what's popular. I'm interested in inching as close to what's true as possible.

Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Mar 2022 3.40am)

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