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What you are talking about is difference of interpretation, judgement, or opinion.
If people believe everything that politicians say, it is not craziness, but naivety. Conversely, if people do not believe anything that politicians say, it is paranoia.
On balance, it seems that naivety less 'crazy' than paranoia, because it assumes that speech is fundamentally a form of communication, which it is; while paranoia assumes that speech is fundamentally a form of deception. Assuming the former is socially functional; assuming the latter makes listening redundant and is socially dysfunctional.
No it does stray into the realms of insanity....i'll try and explain myself a bit better....
I just watched a bit of a programme that was on the BBC where this British couple go to Germany to live as average germans to try to figure out why germany is such a success while Britain is such a failure
In 1945 the second world war ended and germany had lost yet here we are decades later and germany is floursihing whilst britain is languishing. The programme goes into various differences between the two. i can't comment in too much detail because i haven't finished it yet but I was impressed myself when i went to germany and i have my own theories about what is going on. One aspect would be their more de-centralised form of government.
But i want to focus in on a psychological factor. The programme mentioned complacency by the british where the germans had to pull together after their defeat....ok i think there is something in that but its only part of it.
What i have noticed british people do a lot is project onto reality what they want reality to be instead of facing upto what reality actually is. This is a form of self delusion. An economist once described a similar form of behaviour as 'wishful non-thinking'
The germans are well known for efficiency whilst the british just flannel their way through situations. The germans come up with efficient solutions and systems whilst the british come up with half assed solutions that are completely inelegant and frustratingly ineffective
You just need to try and negotiate our road systems or public transport systems to see this in action and then do the same in germany to see the contrast
The british still have this mentality that is an echo from when britain had an empire that we are somehow innately better than other people. You can see this arrogance these days in US americans now as they buy into this idea of 'american exceptionalism'
The british rock band Pink Flyod often wrote songs about the british condition and they sang a very telling line which was borrowed from Theroux i think which was: 'hanging on in quiet desperation, that's the english way'
In britain people don't get off their butts to come up with good solutions they just muddle through instead in a sort of unproductive, ineffective and ultimately frustrating way that basically slowly grinds down peoples spirits boosting a feeling of malaise and dissatisfaction
In my opinion there are few things more satisfying than coming up with a good solution to a problem and then implementing it. i believe that is what we evolved over 200,000 years to do as hunter gatherers faced with fresh problems on a daily basis that we had to innovate our way around
Innovation in britain gets stifled by a number of things part of which is the class system and the culture
So in this world where British people are living in a fantasy version of reality instead of actually facing reality, dealing with it and improving it people are all running away from reality!
There is a national psychosis in this country
I know i go on about a lot of conspiracy stuff here but i honestly can't understand why most people can't notice some of the obvious shit that i can see eg the amount of shit they are spraying in the skies above us (chemtrails):
They really are under a form of hypnosis where they are not perceiveing reality properly
BBC programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038669g/Make_Me_a_German/
