I heard the first sensible thing about the girl who was involved with the drama over insults in the Channel 4 reality program over bullying and abuse. The girl who had been made into a celebrity by the media previously.
On BBC breakfast, from a person who was representing thr 'Institute of Ideas' - an organisation I know nothing of, but will check up on now...
... The comment was simple - stupid though the girl is, she has been demonised and villified by the media in a way that shows the public commentators to be at least as vicious and manipulative as she had been, and moreso. Let's not forget, these are the same people that bore her up and gave her graces.
I have been at the receiving end of bullying, and race is just another hook to use, anything that externalises the victim from the group is an opportunity for a manipulator. There are many other forms of manipulation that are not bullying, and are no less ugly.
We learn some of these techniques as we grow up, and then as we develop awareness of our actions and their consequences, we drop them or nurture them according to our environment and attitude towards life and those around us. Anyon who denies this hasn't thought much about themselves, or was never a baby crying for food.
The point was further made that polititans and press alike use the general public to sustain themselves, while not hesitating to paint the public in a pretty ugly light as well, calling people scavengers and looters rather than beachcombers or salvagers, constantly referring to yob culture, and more often than not denigrating the public they use to keep them down (my interpretation). Evidence of nurtured manipulation techniques from the establishment that would claim to have us all behave like saints?
Oh well.
No comments:
Post a Comment