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There's a great part in the book 1984 where they talk about how the elite 1% control everything and 85% are just living off the scraps. The remaining 14% see themselves as prospective elites, though they live only marginally better than the 85%. The elites promise that if only they defend the 1% hard enough, and do everything they're told they should do, then one day they might be let into the elite crowd.
I think George Orwell was describing centrists as that 14%. The defenders of the status quo.
I think that, in the "Global North", the % is higher. It's a bit tricky to define the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" class.
Swing
And a complete miss
The fun thing about fiction is that you can interpret it however you like and not be wrong.
No. Create any narrativeto support the propaganda and its still propaganda.
Please. Wont somebody think of the children! !!11!!
You’re undermining your own cause.
Sorry... you're saying there's a right way and a wrong way to interpret something that isn't real?
Which religious sect do you belong to?
Which part is the propaganda?