How brainwashed is the average American?
Between the political misinformation campaigns, mass media distortions, ideological oversimplifications, scientifically engineered advertisements, narrow school curricula, religious mystification, and lack of historical awareness and appreciation of other cultures and perspectives, you could venture that the average american's grasp on sociopolitical reality is tenuous at best and that this state of affairs is deliberately intended by the powers that be.
Only in America do you have huge swathes of the population unable to grasp the true roots of the economic and political forces that have seen a steady decline in the prospects of middle class in the past decades and massive shift in wealth from the majority of the population to the very few.
Is the inability of Americans at large to critically analyze the situation of the country a byproduct of the corporate state's social engineering, or are Americans simply in denial about the state of their country?
"and humanities" was a mistake
>>72965451
>Only in America do you have huge swathes of the population unable to grasp the true roots of the economic and political forces that have seen a steady decline in the prospects of middle class in the past decades and massive shift in wealth from the majority of the population to the very few.
Yeah man, I'm sure if you go to like, Greece or Russia, everyone will totally understand economics and realpolitik.
>>72965451
>Only in America
Are you delusional? The average person all over the world is stupid and uninformed. Its just that Americans are on TV more often.
>is
>>>/pol/
I think you are vastly overestimating the rest of the world, if you think Americans are the worst.
>>72965453
I don't care about shitty counties. I mean good countries. For the most part Brits know what's up. Canadians know what's up. Icelanders know what's up.
>>72965457
>For the most part Brits know what's up.
I'm curious as to how much face-to-face interaction you've had with regular, everyday British people, because this is not the impression I get from talking to them, at all.
>>72965456
Busted countries with no literacy and basic services don't count. You would expect them to not know.
In America all the answers are out there to find throug freedom of information, and yet you still find huge portions of Americans holding patently false beliefs about the way their society works. I belive those beliefs were planted somehow through an elaborate propaganda mechanism.
>>72965457
>Canadians know what's up.
no they don't
t. Canadian
>>72965458
Very little. But read the comments sections of British rags, and you'll see people point out what's what.
I'm fully willing to concede that this is a biased sample. Still, it seems that in America there is a popular will to believe in the patently untrue in order to evade asking serious questions about corruption and system dysfunction.
On healthcare, eduction, the electoral process, you find millions of Americans not with uninformed views, but misinformed ones.
>>72965459
>Busted countries with no literacy and basic services don't count
Not talking about them. Have you seen Vladimir Putin's approval rating? Americans are actually more skeptical than most of the bullshit they are fed.
>>72965459
there's a greentext and kojima MGS2 speech covering the flow of ideas becoming a more insular exchange that's limited to the like minded group one often surrounds themselves with.
This isn't unique to America.
>>72965457
you have no idea what you're talking about but sure, keep at it
>>72965459
>an elaborate propaganda mechanism
You mean the internet?
>>72965461
>read the comments sections o
>>72965461
Nigga are you serious? First of all, like half the top visited british news outlets are tabloid-tier; that alone should tell you something about the caliber of minds we're dealing with. Most of the comments are banal shit like:
>"well in my day this never would have happened, we had common sense back then >:^("
>>72965465
No, I mean all the things I listed in OP.
But the Internet is part of it. Studies have shown that even gently biasing what shows up in the top ten google searches can greatly influence people's decision making and voting patterns.
>>72965451
Not even an american, but the US seems to be doing a lot better than Europe at the moment.
>>72965451
How brainwashed do you consider yourself? That's the level the average American is at, no better, no worse. You aren't some super-magical thinker immune to idiocy
>>72965467
It's not the irrelevant chatter and celebrity gossip I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is Americans having a sociopolitical belief system that is add odds with reality, and which seems greatly resistant to change or critique, and which keeps Americans from thinking about the flaws in their country.
For example, the childish build a wall meme. For some reason millions of Americans think this idea would set the country on the right track. That very fact goes to show that critical thinking and reasoning have no place in American politics. Why is that, unless Americans are being unwittingly socially engineered not to see things as they are?
Americans more than any other people I know of will defend the very systems and processes that hold them back. Working class people voting republican is a big example of this.
>>72965470
But actually I am ;)
>>72965471
>For example, the childish build a wall meme. For some reason millions of Americans think this idea would set the country on the right track.
How is this any different from Prime Minister Cameron's "No more refugees!" meme?
>>72965472
Doubt it. Unless you agree with me on every possible topic, because you see I truly am an independent thinker who sees the truth. If you disagree with me the only explanation is brainwashing by a nebulous cabal
>>72965457
>Iceland knows what's up
Nigga... They have a population of 300,000. That's a small city. They're incredibly homogenous, yet.... They find themselves in the midst of an enormous political and economic scandal.
>>72965451
>explain human behavior to me
No
>>72965451
What board is this from? I don't really understand why this is here either.
>>72965718
this thread was probably moved here from /int/, burger
Posting in an ayyyyliens thread
>>72965451
>unknown flag
>>72965451
I'm not brainwashed at all
Trump should be president because you're fuckin fired that's why
>>72965934
Nah it was /his/ (we kinda have a problem with off-topic posts.)
>>72966053
I knew it. This was too intellectual for a /pol/ thread
>>72966053
/his/ is a board made just to forbid /pol/ from posting about historical subjects. It was pretty much only made because goons insisted, so that they could have their own board and they could keep out "racist" history.
And so they post lots of offtopic shit just to insult anyone who isn't one of them and bait /his/ posters into getting banned.
>>72966053
I posted above and I didn't think it was off topic. Fuck the mods
>muh brainwashed murrica
look at yourself first, your average college liberal is way worse
>>72966273
yeah right, as if any of you knew anything about history.
it had nothing to do with the fact that you're a bunch of meme spouting retards
>>72966282
"Why are [insert race/nationality/etc] so stupid?" threads belong on /int/.
>>72966273
right wing death squads when?
>>72966486
Then why are you here? Just to "educate" us "evil Nazis?"
Leave.
>>72966672
Soon.
>threads get moved
We forum now
god /his/ is shit
Where the flags?
>>72967597
Huh that's strange. All the flags are there on my screen
Must be something wrong with your computer senpai
>>72967597
It switched boards.
>>72967597
It's the Ayys asking of how easy it would be to conquer the burgers
