Political Abuse

[ish mailian]

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Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió —Complexity and Contradiction in Infrastructure:
On the Schumacher-Trump Hegemony

http://averyreview.com/issues/21/complexity-and-contradiction-in-infrastructure

On Wednesday, January 25, 2017, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, but you do?  Again, that misses the point at the heart of
> 'gaslighting," AKA political abuse.  It is NOT the same as a con.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wednesday, January 25, 2017, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ishmailian at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> A lot of the discussion about how the people who voted for Trump see
>> themselves, how they view their position in the nation, in the nation's
>> history and so on and how capitalism has, saturated their views, their
>> hearts and minds, this is a kind of collective subjectivity sure. Trump
>> understands this and most of his critics don't understand that he
>> understands this and thus they don't understand him.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd have said this applies as much to ways of Western capitalism as it
>>> does to authoritarian regimes. The hoo ha about alt facts/false news seems
>>> to me to be a sign that the longstanding consensus (Gramsci's collective
>>> subjective) is breaking down, and the general populace is becoming open to
>>> different narratives as they look for fresh certainties to underpin their
>>> day to day lives. How much these narratives cleave to longer term realities
>>> are not as important as their appeal to shorter term emotional needs.
>>>
>>> On 24-Jan-17 4:10 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>>
>>> http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/22/is-shawn-spicer-gasl
>>> ighting-the-press/
>>>
>>> The truly horrible thing about propaganda in authoritarian regimes is
>>> not that it convinces the true believers, but that it demoralizes opponents
>>> by saying in effect: “Yes, we know that you know we are lying, but we don’t
>>> care! We do it because we can and you can’t stop us!” As for the majority
>>> of apolitical citizens, it infects them with a corrosive cynicism and
>>> dissuades them from all forms of public engagement. Apathy may be a more
>>> powerful silencer of dissent than overt physical coercion.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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