Re:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societ...
by pydry on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:10AM
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>My point is that some people just hate the USA, think everything bad is somehow the USA's fault
Some people write off every CIA plot as a harebrained conspiracy theory until they publish the papers about it 50 years later.
Re:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societ...
by msla on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:34AM
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"Nothing happens without the CIA" is just as comforting as "Nothing happens without God" I suppose; both presuppose the existence of an all-powerful entity controlling everything, as a ward against having to acknowledge randomness and absurdity.
Orwell said it pretty well:
> It is also worth emphasising once again that nationalist feeling can be purely negative. There are, for example, Trotskyists who have become simply enemies of the U.S.S.R. without developing a corresponding loyalty to any other unit.
From "Notes On Nationalism"
My point is that some people just hate the USA, think everything bad is somehow the USA's fault (even to the point of thinking all revolutions or coups are CIA plots, as if Those People had no agency of their own) and base their whole worldview on that hatred.