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a story
how is it a people who love
robin hood and think the
sheriff of nottingham a villain
end up voting tory
Published 4th Apr 2023
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Anonymous
4th Apr 2023 00:32am
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4th Apr 2023 11:44am
5th Apr 2023 00:13am
As Mr Black above suggests - the answer lies in the use of symbols via mass media, and clever distortions of language and concepts. That people vote against their own self-interest due to the manipulation of mass psychology was noted by Orwell & Huxley in the 1930s, and they tried to warn us. It's depressing that it still happens after it has all been so well exposed, also by Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism which I'm currently re-reading. Scary.
5th Apr 2023 1:02am
the effort put in to convince us to be angry and frightened of certain people suggests that people are being swayed by the bloody wrong people
