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> If the country you are referring to is India, it has been backsliding democratically for a while under Modi Its not. Its another country far in the West. Mor

> If the country you are referring to is India, it has been backsliding democratically for a while under Modi Its not. Its another country far in the West. Moreover, the US press has alternatively depicted the social/cultural segment that I belonged to as 'antidemocratic elites' and 'democratic opposition' over and over. One day, you belong to the 'antidemocratic elite' according to NYT, Wapo etc. 6 months later when the US policy changes, you suddenly find out that you are now 'the democratic opposition'. But that's not something that dumbfounds me - its how the Western public just believes what they are told and even the educated people you personally know change their opinion with the changes in the mainstream press, while still insisting that they are 'informed and objective'...

mantas 4y ago
Coming from ex-USSR, what is most amazing to me about West is how people trust the government and media. On one hand it's nice. I can imagine the sweet social contract them brought those societies to such place. But on the other hand it looks very funny when there's seemingly little critical thinking even when if the discourse questionable AF. E.g. Stance on Russia, Nord Stream and whatnot for the past 30 years. The government and big businesses pretended that all is nice. And people just ate it up.
- unity1001 4y ago
  > Coming from ex-USSR, what is most amazing to me about West is how people trust the government and media Yep. Amazing contradiction. The most propagandized people on the planet think that they dont have propaganda and they believe in whatever their establishment says. Ends up getting roped into murdering millions for their oil and paying for it with their taxes. Contradictorily, ex-Eastern Bloc citizens may have made a mistake in not believing their own establishment: I read an article in which a journalist told that there are people in Russia who still don't believe that there are homeless in the US. The Cold War movie and bootleg CIA videotape propaganda has been so effective that when the Eastern Bloc governments told their people that there was rampant discrimination, poverty and homelessness in the US back in the day, the people just did not believe them. Immense contradiction. The people in the Anglosphere are way too trusting. The people in the Eastern Bloc were too untrusting...

mantas 4y ago

Coming from ex-USSR, what is most amazing to me about West is how people trust the government and media. On one hand it's nice. I can imagine the sweet social contract them brought those societies to such place. But on the other hand it looks very funny when there's seemingly little critical thinking even when if the discourse questionable AF. E.g. Stance on Russia, Nord Stream and whatnot for the past 30 years. The government and big businesses pretended that all is nice. And people just ate it up.

unity1001 4y ago
> Coming from ex-USSR, what is most amazing to me about West is how people trust the government and media Yep. Amazing contradiction. The most propagandized people on the planet think that they dont have propaganda and they believe in whatever their establishment says. Ends up getting roped into murdering millions for their oil and paying for it with their taxes. Contradictorily, ex-Eastern Bloc citizens may have made a mistake in not believing their own establishment: I read an article in which a journalist told that there are people in Russia who still don't believe that there are homeless in the US. The Cold War movie and bootleg CIA videotape propaganda has been so effective that when the Eastern Bloc governments told their people that there was rampant discrimination, poverty and homelessness in the US back in the day, the people just did not believe them. Immense contradiction. The people in the Anglosphere are way too trusting. The people in the Eastern Bloc were too untrusting...