"The premise of "distrust of authority is propaganda" is so self-contradictory that I wonder if this article is a deliberate troll. [...] In conclusion: the the

"The premise of "distrust of authority is propaganda" is so self-contradictory that I wonder if this article is a deliberate troll. [...] In conclusion: the thesis made no logical sense, the examples were poor, and the writing was needlessly verbose." Likewise. I was thoroughly disappointed with the article. It started off as a hopeful "hint" at social commentary about the underlying nature of how movies/stories/epics affect us in subtle ways. And it turned out to be a glorified, overly verbose rant against the "distrust of authority". Maybe I should take a leap and suggest that perhaps this author is currently having a bit of a political crisis in his life and is trying to reconcile democracy with how he views what the article refers to as "idiots". Either he accepts that the majority are "idiots", or he constructs a narrative around how they're not really "idiots", and that it's just the "propaganda" that tricks us into thinking so. Or it could be just me, projecting.