• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    There’s a great part in the book 1984 where they talk about how the elite 1% control everything and 85% are just living off the scraps. The remaining 14% see themselves as prospective elites, though they live only marginally better than the 85%. The elites promise that if only they defend the 1% hard enough, and do everything they’re told they should do, then one day they might be let into the elite crowd.

    I think George Orwell was describing centrists as that 14%. The defenders of the status quo.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I think that, in the “Global North”, the % is higher. It’s a bit tricky to define the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” class.

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          9 months ago

          No. Create any narrativeto support the propaganda and its still propaganda.

          Please. Wont somebody think of the children! !!11!!

          You’re undermining your own cause.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            Sorry… you’re saying there’s a right way and a wrong way to interpret something that isn’t real?

            Which religious sect do you belong to?