capital-G Gamers fascinate me so much because i cannot fathom the mind of an individual who insists so heavily that the existence of any sort of minority within a game is inherently political, yet also is completely incapable of recognizing when the game is actively making fun of them for bigotry.
like what goes on inside their brains? is it too leaded for the neurons to fire properly? are there only a handful of brain cells floating around clacking into each other like billiards? it confounds me. it makes no damn sense. compels me though
People talk about the decline of media literacy but it's been an issue for centuries. Some people really aren't operating on any high level
They thought Colbert's Colbert character was a conservative, for instance
I think that's one of the core appeals of conservatism- you will not be asked to process any new ideas, you can simply refer to the anointed talking heads to know how you should feel about the news of the day.
It's why talking to a lot of them feels like an exercise in frustration because they simply just echo the talking points du jour, regardless of what they claimed to believe yesterday or the week before.
A quote from a particular book conservatives tend to at best misunderstand and more typically not understand at all:
"Ignorance is bliss"
What's worse is they're also prone to the "we've always been at war with eurasia" and five minutes of hate and they never recognize it.
Correct! The character was entirely meant to be a ridiculous spoof of conservative talking heads, and neither Colbert nor his writers were subtle about it at all; from "truthiness" to his over the top interviews to his skewering of the press corps during the Correspondent's dinner.
And yet.
