If I can just go back to what I began to talk about yesterday, I think people are being manipulated more and more these days. After I blogged I watched the news, and noticed the sickening amount of political manipulation there is, especially in America. People listen to all these (far) right-wing reactionary twits spouting the most absurd nonsense about things they barely understand, and somehow believe them. Politicians and broadcasters use simplistic but highly emotive rhetoric to actively distort the truth. It’s happening here to, with so-called conspiracy theorists concocting all kinds of elaborate stories in order to make people vote Leave last year, for example. A five minute Google can usually debunk most of what they say, but the worrying thing is, people are letting theirselves be manipulated; people allow their perception of reality to be distorted. The simplification of the political discourse I noted yesterday allows people to access their listeners’ emotions and to turn them into a reactionary, fearful, easily lead horde, ready to vote for something manifestly outside of their best interests. People are being told not to listen to the big, bad mainstream, allowing speakers to demonise other sources of information; it also gives the speakers the air of heroic rebels, when in truth they are nothing more than reactionary morons spouting shit about things they barely understand.