Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

[wes4dbt]

To make an attempt at answering that...

It basically comes down to the question Shaggy was asking (a few posts ago).
"How can you live with that?"

And I think he was very serious about it... (in, that there's real fear involved).
A whole lot of people just can't live with the bitter reality, that they are:
"un-important... mere puppets in a corrupt, merciless system which gets worse by the minute".

For their own survival (the worse reality gets) - they *need* to cling to anything,
which still offers them "the good-feeling" for their own, continued "peace-of-mind".

Public media-channels to the rescue..., which tell you everyting about, that:
- democracy still works
- public media-channels engage in "true journalism"
- corruption at the highest levels doesn't exist
- and everyone who disagrees with *you*, the "proud owner of the latest 4K-TV-Screen", is either a conspiracist or a nut-case

So, don't ask these people "such inconvenient things" - because there's no point
(their own fear does not allow, to even consider questions which touch on "unfiltered reality").

Olaf

I don't know what things are like where you live but just about every line in that is wrong. No one in this thread matches that description.

No one said corruption doesn't exist. But the scope of corruption that some here claim is not possible.

I see no one clinging to "the good feelings" for their peace of mind. Quite the opposite, I see people inventing Boogie Men because they are scared of the realities of life.

Public media-channels to the rescue..., which tell you everyting about, that:
- democracy still works
- public media-channels engage in "true journalism"
- corruption at the highest levels doesn't exist
- and everyone who disagrees with *you*, the "proud owner of the latest 4K-TV-Screen", is either a conspiracist or a nut-case

So wrong. Fox and CNN are constantly accusing the other trying to destroy democracy.
I know there are people who watch Fox/CNN news and believe them but I don't think that's the case in this thread. I don't watch them except for thing like natural disaster or other things like that but not for social insight. I know SH doesn't own a TV. It really seem like claiming "people believe mass media" (which is lying to them) is always the response when someone doesn't believe your conspiracy theory. I've seen no sign of that in this thread.

and this,

- and everyone who disagrees with *you*, the "proud owner of the latest 4K-TV-Screen", is either a conspiracist or a nut-case

Is childish.