tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407416181100487496.post3521751930690847726..comments2023-04-05T17:39:08.079+10:00Comments on Adding Noughts in Vain: Learning to Live in Bizarro WorldAndrew Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05943355970928751070noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407416181100487496.post-70861039328346504422008-07-08T19:09:00.000+10:002008-07-08T19:09:00.000+10:00I have spoken to many people and what comes throug...I have spoken to many people and what comes through most clearly to me is a significant knowledge deficit. People don't actually know what is going on. That is because they have studiously ignored the wider world of politics, ideology and economics for years. When you try to explain it to them in simple words, they lack even the vocabulary to understand the explanation. <BR/><BR/>Why people have dumbed themselves down to the point where they can barely think (not that they understand this to be the case) is open to conjecture. No one MUST be ignorant. They choose to be, either actively or by default. Of course, you can NEVER tell them this is the case because everyone assumes they know everything they need to know.....even when they don't know much at all. <BR/><BR/>So arguing policy or details or systems with people who have NO idea what is being discussed or how major institutions - public or private actually work....is a waste of time. <BR/><BR/>As National has been doing, and as the US Right did 15 years ago, you must appeal to emotions related to desires and fears...at least everyone has those, regardless of what they know or don't know. <BR/><BR/>But why bag the government? They are an easy target. Give'em the fingers. Never mind you borrowed too much money and now you're screwed. Who in their right mind accepts responsibility when there is someone else you can blame? <BR/><BR/>It's irrational....but often predictable. <BR/><BR/>When anyone tries to explain why things are the way they are to people who have long since paying attention to more than their own narrow personal circumstances, their audience (as far as I can see) do what they've done since they were kids, fingers in their ears, mocking, "Na na na na na na..."Steve Withershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04221815213521767405noreply@blogger.com