Rusere Shoniwa

[Wayne Hall]

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[Wayne Hall]

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[Wayne Hall]

Rusere Shoniwa:

"Contrary to the rage expressed and amplified in the media, we actually do know how to get along and respect each other’s differences. We do know what matters to most of us, and it’s not reflected in the spurious ‘Left’ / ‘Right’ labels or the media’s hate fest."

This "getting along and respecting each other's differences" may be an important factor behind "the public's" general reluctance or unwillingness to subscribe to the revelations of those the media and politicians describe as "conspiracy theorists". Without this usually being articulated, the public is mostly pretty well aware that any controversial assertion is likely to be, or become, one side of a "divide and rule" scenario. In the interest of "getting along and respecting each other's differences" the public will therefore tend to avoid public identification with anything perceived to be controversial.

Of course this same public just as frequently tends to parrot what is persistently and uniformly projected by the mainstream media. The two tendencies coexist, sometimes even in the same individual.

When Rusere endorses a British party called "The Independent Alliance" he seems to be doing more or less, if not exactly, the same as what a supporter of, e.g. the New Zealand Party called N.Z. Loyal, is doing, however opposite the proclamation of independence seems to be prima facie from the proclamation of loyalty.

To me the loyalty proclamation seems less of a cliche, more remote from the assumptions of liberalism, less shopworn.

W.H.