09-20-2017, 12:04 PM
(09-19-2017, 09:44 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-19-2017, 09:33 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Unlike with you, I think in his case it is the latter since he rarely if ever makes new arguments.
I think you've got that backwards. Most people have to encounter new ideas more than once if they are counter to a lifetime of propaganda exposure - especially when the propaganda specifically includes simplistic ways to reject those ideas. In addition, I believe, he has a vested interest in the welfare system. Get him a job that takes him off welfare for a few years, and he might suddenly become open minded.
The last paying job that I had was as a substitute school teacher -- so I know how rough poverty can be on students.
If you are talking about a low-paying job in retail, as in a convenience store -- such would really radicalize me.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.