When people watch films that involve "The Resistance", people tend to always side with them. The Matrix, Star Wars.. it makes sense when it's fiction.
In real life, when it's the reality they're living in, it doesn't seem connect. They refuse to understand it.
I think real life isn't as black and white.
Even if I try to keep a neutral view and try to get information, I don't get any. People are attacking me, even if I am not sure what for. (and I suspect it is about a lie) So, if no-one is interested in aligning information, then ignorance wins and one can always consider oneself the "good guy", because one avoids any information to the contrary. People don't seem to like to figure out what's really going on. And that's very counter-intuitive for me.
I guess, it's easier in the movie because the story is laid out and you can assume that the good guys will win in the end.
Partly, yes. I also think it hasn’t yet reached the level of peak suffering for people to make a decision. Most are tolerating it. The threshold hasn’t been crossed yet.
Most people don’t even understand what they should be resisting. Propaganda is difficult to wade through to find the truth. And people are focused on surviving. There’s no room in most people’s lives to question what is going on.
They aren’t suffering enough yet. It hasn’t reached the front door. Until then, it won’t be clear.
I really don’t think it will be clear even then. Not to most anyway. I encourage you to listen to the very good podcast, It Could Happen Here.
Any kind of “resistance” will almost certainly be very factionalized. Different regional groups vying for power and running their own propaganda campaigns. The “fog of war” would be extremely dense and getting any kind of real information will be difficult.
this is part of what made the star wars prequel trilogy pretty cool was the attempt at expanding the perspective. that said, the execution failed miserably, but at least it tried
So true ... cognitive disodence
