Highly educated people often share the social bubble of quite sensible people who are convinced that they are well informed with their subscription to @nytimes, @washingtonpost or @guardian and their daily portion of @BBCWorld or @CNN,

their membership of and / or vote for a liberal-left party, their dedain for 'populist' parties, their adoration for Obama / Clinton and their aversion to Trump, their fear of Putin, their fascination for White Helmets and Bellingcat, their firm faith in their own government and

condemnation of Amnesty-selected 'regimes', their disbelief when you explain to them that you have an opposit opinion because they expect ‘common’ sense based on your education and work, their usually unspoken outcasting of you from their bubble,

concluding that your ideas are a bit extreme, while you yourself are only against imperialist interference and have the impression that they have stopped critical thinking, possibly because (political) careers run more smoothly with a certain naivety or cowardice.

That is (in my opinion then) the cause of many geopolitical problems: looking away, even if international law is violated. We too get the governments that we deserve plus the "quality media" that behave like propaganda outlets of those governments.

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