People who are deprived of any say in their own fate turn their resentment on an imagined enemy, be it Ukrainian "fascists" or American imperialists.Yet, just as with Soviet propaganda, which blamed outside enemies for the country's failures, resentment is vulnerable to reality.
Now we see there's another demographic vulnerable to reality TV's effects: Politicians.
The dot-com stocks were vulnerable to a reality check even before expectations of U.S. inflation began to rise.
This isn't the case for all girls, of course, but there is undeniable pressure to seek male attention, making even the most resistant girls vulnerable to unfortunate social realities.
The more than 1.4 billion people who live in extreme poverty, unable to upgrade their habitations, remain vulnerable to the ecologic realities of tropical and subtropical diseases, some of them woefully neglected―dengue, visceral leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis.
Even if countries keep to their commitments anticipated in Paris, warming will exceed the 2 degree Celsius cap during this century; to make matters worse, the commitments are voluntary and are, thus, vulnerable to political and economic realities back home.
The book explains how even very successful companies, with very capable personnel, often fail because they tend to stick to the strategies that made them successful in the first place, leaving themselves vulnerable to changing conditions and new realities.
Not surprisingly, this reality leaves them vulnerable to incalculable harm.
"Purporting that Huawei is somehow uniquely vulnerable to cyber mischief ignores technical and commercial realities, recklessly threatens American jobs and innovation, does nothing to protect national security".
And who better than the vulnerable to give the public – the economic drivers of reality TV – its kicks?
But in reality, they are just as vulnerable to being left dumped and heartbroken as anyone else.
