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I always thought of America as a very weird place, but every time, upon closer inspection, the "weirdness" revealed itself very superficial. The basic reality
by baybal2 5y ago
I always thought of America as a very weird place, but every time, upon closer inspection, the "weirdness" revealed itself very superficial.
The basic reality of America is much more boring than the fancy hipster media tends to portray. They invented a virtual reality for themselves, and are living in it.
My political theory of America is that it is much more boring, and straightforward predictable politically, than any popular media portrayal.
And it is so because most media portrayals are partisan, created much to the ends of the respective party drawing it. A wishful thinking picture of reality.
- krapp 5y agoYeah, it turns out most cultures aren't accurately described by popular stereotypes and mass media, and people are pretty much normal everywhere. Go figure.
- baybal2 5y ago> Yeah, it turns out most cultures aren't accurately described by popular stereotypes and mass media, and people are pretty much normal everywhere. Yap, over past few decades the people running the popular media started to drink their own coolaid, and these popular media portraits went on to live their own lives fully detached from the reality. When people on the TV now tell of American elections being totally unpredictable, it's hard to not to notice how the popular sentiment is actually very accurate at predicting the outcome. US elections are basically the anger-meter.