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In reply to the discussion: How does a country continue to function when 1/2 the citizens have lost their minds? [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)19. I can explain it to you very easily if you will explain to me how . . .
"Professional Wrestling" holds an audience in the US let alone makes billions of dollars.
The WWE grosses about $ 1 billion a year.
It relies on the "Suspension of Disbelief".
The term suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief has been defined as a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe something surreal; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment.[1] The term was coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgement concerning the implausibility of the narrative. Suspension of disbelief often applies to fictional works of the action, comedy, fantasy, and horror genres. Cognitive estrangement in fiction involves using a person's ignorance to promote suspension of disbelief.[2]
We have moved story telling into sport and now into politics. Its not what you know, can prove, or explain factually it is the story you want to believe.
And as we tell our children (well not me but many people do) if you really really really believe in something then it can come true.
Technically we are in a country that is heavily populated by idiots.
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How does a country continue to function when 1/2 the citizens have lost their minds? [View all]
D_Master81
Oct 2018
OP
Well, in 1861 it was about one-third in terms of like to like populations, and it took four years...
RHMerriman
Oct 2018
#3
When you think a bombing plot is a false flag conspiracy, you've lost your mind.
Initech
Oct 2018
#5