As ever, it's all about education: sufficient education in order to understand the world we inhabit. When you begin to understand, you have half a chance of enacting change, if you know which "buttons to press".
Keeping people politically illiterate helps chancers like fartage to effortlessly hijack and amplify long-term grievances, pointing out the perceived and assumed causes, warnings of dire consequences if left unchallenged, recruiting an army of hot-headed converts to spread the message and do the dirty work. Those who resist are labelled as unpatriotic, against the will of the people and guilty of perpetuating the status quo.
It's all so simple and there he is, pint in hand, jovial and avuncular, grinning like a smiling assassin, ready to push them under the next bus when it gets out of hand.
We see it. We call it out. We're held in contempt and the fingers now point at us.
As ever, it's all about education: sufficient education in order to understand the world we inhabit. When you begin to understand, you have half a chance of enacting change, if you know which "buttons to press".
I enjoy reading your content and am about a third of the way through your book. Thanks so much!!
Thanks so much for the comment, Neville - and thanks so much for buying my book!
I hope you’re enjoying the read.
Keeping people politically illiterate helps chancers like fartage to effortlessly hijack and amplify long-term grievances, pointing out the perceived and assumed causes, warnings of dire consequences if left unchallenged, recruiting an army of hot-headed converts to spread the message and do the dirty work. Those who resist are labelled as unpatriotic, against the will of the people and guilty of perpetuating the status quo.
It's all so simple and there he is, pint in hand, jovial and avuncular, grinning like a smiling assassin, ready to push them under the next bus when it gets out of hand.
We see it. We call it out. We're held in contempt and the fingers now point at us.
Spot on, looking forward to receiving my signed copy!