If you understand Brexit, you almost certainly can't understand why others don't understand Brexit.
It's a classic Catch-22 situation.
Simply put: they will NEVER have seen the sorts of information sources you have. So they literally don't know what they don't know.
It's a classic Catch-22 situation.
Simply put: they will NEVER have seen the sorts of information sources you have. So they literally don't know what they don't know.
Are they ill-informed? Yes, if we measure against reality.
Yet they could have consumed a vast amount of "information" from the tabloids, Farage, Brexiters, right-wing TV/radio personalities etc., and practically drowned in tweets and posts from like-minded folk on social media.
Yet they could have consumed a vast amount of "information" from the tabloids, Farage, Brexiters, right-wing TV/radio personalities etc., and practically drowned in tweets and posts from like-minded folk on social media.
That's one of the main reasons why Leavers get annoyed if you call them ignorant. Many put in some effort.
(The other, of course, being that NOBODY likes being insulted.)
It's like training for a marathon when it turns out you were really up for rhythmic gymnastics.
(The other, of course, being that NOBODY likes being insulted.)
It's like training for a marathon when it turns out you were really up for rhythmic gymnastics.
Info bubbles are everywhere.
The only way to break out of them is to force your way out.
And the only reason to break out of them is if you know you're trapped in one in the first place. Which you're unlikely to if you're stuck inside it.
The only way to break out of them is to force your way out.
And the only reason to break out of them is if you know you're trapped in one in the first place. Which you're unlikely to if you're stuck inside it.
The information Leavers were fed in huge amounts was wrong, but it was *consistently wrong*. Key players all sang from the same satanic hymnsheet.
So it is too easy and too condescending to paint them as disinterested, or to claim "they should have known because it was obvious".
So it is too easy and too condescending to paint them as disinterested, or to claim "they should have known because it was obvious".
Be honest...
How often do you read the Express? The Daily Mail? The Sun? Do you make a point to regularly follow what someone like Farage is saying, in detail?
Maybe you monitor them all the time. But that makes you the exception, even among Remainers.
Now flip it around.
How often do you read the Express? The Daily Mail? The Sun? Do you make a point to regularly follow what someone like Farage is saying, in detail?
Maybe you monitor them all the time. But that makes you the exception, even among Remainers.
Now flip it around.
That's why the "Project Fear" label was so damaging and effective.
If every information source you're used to is telling you a single consistent message ("Them lot are just scaremongering") how do you know - I mean, actually KNOW - that's not the case?
Honest answer: you don't.
If every information source you're used to is telling you a single consistent message ("Them lot are just scaremongering") how do you know - I mean, actually KNOW - that's not the case?
Honest answer: you don't.
The single biggest guilty party is the BBC, if only because they tower over all others in terms of breadth of media coverage and audience reach.
Their insistence that all Brexit stories must have two "sides" nurtured the myth that it was all just opinion anyway.
From my book...
Their insistence that all Brexit stories must have two "sides" nurtured the myth that it was all just opinion anyway.
From my book...
It's super frustrating now that real Brexit is here.
Reality is on the side of Remain.
So it's a huge shame to put the backs up of people who might come around (quietly) to understanding they made a mistake, by virtue of rubbing their noses in it and taunting them.
Reality is on the side of Remain.
So it's a huge shame to put the backs up of people who might come around (quietly) to understanding they made a mistake, by virtue of rubbing their noses in it and taunting them.
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