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>This article makes me angry because it doesn't consider the effects of Cov2 going pandemic. Your anger is justified, but perhaps you are not it's intended aud
by 45ure 7y ago
>This article makes me angry because it doesn't consider the effects of Cov2 going pandemic.
Your anger is justified, but perhaps you are not it's intended audience. The Spectator is prone to virtue signalling and is a sister publication to The Telegraph (aka The Torygraph).
The excerpt below has been used so many times, that it is practically a trope, and easily identifiable. The premise being, telling it's intended audience: you are rich and priveleged, this matter is trivial and does not concern you, continue as usual and pick up a few bargains whilst there is still blood on the streets, screw the poor.
We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it.
- mcv 7y ago> "We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it." This is true. Seen from a historical context, we're living in a utopia, yet we seem very unhappy about it.
- 45ure 7y agoYou seem to have missed the point entirely or not familiar with this group of publications. This hook is used to entice it's target pearl clutching readership, in order to maintain it's flailing subscriber base ─ even giving it away for free with a bottle of water! I am enclosing yet another facetious quote from the article, of which there are many, and have no relevance or bearing to the grave matter at hand. At the end of January, Brexit had just been completed without incident. Here is another dated example of a running theme, amongst many recent ones. I will let you look for them at your leisure. If you agree with it, good luck, you are a Tory. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10412499/The-world-has-never-had-it-so-good-thanks-partly-to-capitalism.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10412499/The-w...