[wizardoz]

I've come to the sad conclusion that Europeans are remarkably naive, unsophisticated, reactionary, parochial, and easily manipulated.

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I've come to the sad conclusion that Europeans are remarkably naive, unsophisticated, reactionary, parochial, and easily manipulated.

That’s impossible. They have accents! They must be “worldly and enlightened.”

[Yardstick]

Europeans are second only to Arabs when it comes to being easily demagogued. Their minds are thoroughly managed by their socialist, America-hating media, yet they think we're the ones who have been duped. It reminds me of Chomsky's theory that private media is more interested in and more effective at mass manipulation of the public than the enlightened media enterprises of the disinterested state. When you're dealing with socialists, everything is upside down.