Originally Posted by skyline

The status quo in many western countries is vastly different to that of Pakistan or Afghanistan, no matter how alike people in either country think pluralistic ignorance plays a major role in how their country progresses politically. In the US a lot of pluralistic ignorance surrounding religious extremist movements has been dissolved, it makes it a lot easier to speak out against it. In a different political climate you could pick the same US citizens holding the same views only to find them less willing to express said views no matter what those around them actually think.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.