Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Brin, David (2013), Our Favorite Cliché: A World Filled With Idiots, Retrieved on 2014-04-21
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    Memes

    21 APR 2014

     "Susicion of Authority" is Also Propaganda

    While individuals get our empathy and sympathy, institutions seldom do. The "we're in this together" spirit of films from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s later gave way to a reflex shared by left and right, that villainy is associated with organization. Even when they aren't portrayed as evil, bureaucrats are stupid and public officials short-sighted. Only the clever bravado of a solitary hero (or at most a small team) will make a difference in resolving the grand crisis at hand. This rule of con...
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    A conspiracy meme that comes from both the left and right.

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