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The New York Times is a mouth piece of orchestrated propaganda, and the prevailing wind they’re trying to sell people on is: Most people are really quite stupi
by indus_river 8y ago
The New York Times is a mouth piece of orchestrated propaganda, and the prevailing wind they’re trying to sell people on is:
Most people are really quite stupid, knowing this, we have to intuit that a large number of stupid people are hearing a message that “helcopter parenting” is frowned on, and this might serve as a cue to tragically stupid parents to cut back on general guidance, possibly to the point of neglect.
Given that our audience is comprised of many stupid people, we need to send a clear signal to circumvent the optics of overparenting. The only message stupid people will understand is a diametrically opposed message. To whit: there is no such thing as overparenting, more is better. Smothering your children is okay.
If anything, a propaganda voice like this might serve as a clarion call to shelter children to the point that they grow up stunted, naive and a little immature or socially inept, but honestly it will lead to fewer criminals and lower prison populations, thus the generalized bulletin may be conscionably delivered to the lowest common denominator, however wrong it might prove, upon deep examination.
- BLKNSLVR 8y agoGod that's depressing. Which probably means it's on the money. It makes any discourse on the subtleties of any topic treated in such a way meaningless because the reason behind it is the sub-text as opposed to what is actually presented. Putting icing around a rock and throwing it through a window then saying "I've delivered your cake" when the whole point is the rock and the broken window.