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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.
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anonymous 1y ago

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.

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AK 👸🏻 1y ago

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.

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anonymous 1y ago

Again, from personal experience, it's apparently easier to selectively choose to believe the bad things about someone and make him the bad guy, especially if the mob agrees.