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Hypnotic Séance by Richard Bergh
Hypnotic Séance by Richard Bergh

A few ideas and alternative views that I’ve found to be useful when examining the stories I’m supposed to believe in:

  • Billionaires do exist
  • Capitalist Realism
  • Competition – used to distract and exhaust
  • Consumerism, myth of free, rational consumer
  • Cultural dementia
  • Fascism, simplistic explanation
  • Flooding the zone
  • Fundamental attribution error
  • Monarchy and the media
  • Neoliberalism
  • Social media and populism
  • Stories, humans being vulnerable to

Plus: Notes related to the Brexit disinformation campaigns:

  • Corrupt politicians & neoliberalism: The Vote Leave #Brexit Con Trick
  • Lies: Reasons why Brexit is not valid
  • Conservatism: On the importance of hope and optimism during Brexit and Trump
  • Fake nationalism: Boris Johnson and fake Brexit nationalism
  • Nostalgia & social media: Brexit explained in three tweets
  • Cultural dementia: Brexit, empire and cultural dementia. David Andress demolishes lazy nationalism
  • Fake news: Brexit and carelessness
  • Lobbying from the U.S. Daniel Hannan. Who is he? Who funds him and what do they want?

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