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I believe that I also see an odd sort of insecurity in these very bright, well-educated people who I would have expected to be much more fearless in questioning Authority. In some ways (and particularly when we're talking conspiracy subject matter), they seem very leery of stepping out of the NPR-approved territory. This is a personal observation and I've not been aware of it long enough to test it out much, but damn they seem timid about being perceived as interested in things like mind control or the secret government. It bothers me.
beeline wrote:. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that conservatives don't own fear exclusively.
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Nordic wrote:beeline wrote:. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that conservatives don't own fear exclusively.
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Yeah, and the deliberately manufactured "fear of Sarah Palin" is what keeps Obama's approval ratings inflated artificially high.
LilyPatToo wrote:Sweejack, sorry--I was unclear. My friends are just about all Liberals/Progressives. The level of denial that I see in them when it comes to absolutely anything even faintly conspiracy-tinged is appalling to me. It's the reason why I now accept that NPR has to have been involved in social engineering designed to sow aversion to "conspiracy thinking/subjects"--it's the outstanding common denominator among this group of people. All listen to it and several (my husband included) actually come across to being addicted to tuning in.
I believe that I also see an odd sort of insecurity in these very bright, well-educated people who I would have expected to be much more fearless in questioning Authority. In some ways (and particularly when we're talking conspiracy subject matter), they seem very leery of stepping out of the NPR-approved territory. This is a personal observation and I've not been aware of it long enough to test it out much, but damn they seem timid about being perceived as interested in things like mind control or the secret government. It bothers me.
LilyPat
LilyPatToo wrote:NPR-approved territory
Simulist wrote:It sounds to me like the entire culture is enthralled to authority in one way or another, and that this predisposition manifests in different ways depending upon preferred political tendencies.
The enthrallment to authority is the problem — and it's culture wide. This "neurosis" is neither left-wing nor right-wing, but affects the central nervous system of the whole beast.
Yeah, I listen to NPR, quite a bit but I listen much more for how they cover things rather than for the news and discussions alone. (I don't have TV, and I figure if anything really important happens, someone will post it on RI, where it'll also get an honest examination. Yes...I get my news largely from RI.)
82_28 wrote:About NPR itself, I've heard and read somewhere that it is one hell of a cut-throat organization. Like even harder and expensive to be an affiliate for than say an NBC, CBS or ABC.
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