• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It’s actually insane how pacified our society has become. We don’t even find it strange anymore. Bread and circuses indeed

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      1 year ago

      During WWII, the Nazis figured out a lot how to industrialise a lot of things. One of these was propaganda. After the war, that research didn’t disappear, it’s be expanded upon, massively.

      The end result is that we are pigeons play chess with a master. We don’t even understand the rules of the game, let alone the strategies required to win.

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        1 year ago

        The end result is that we are pigeons play chess with a master. We don’t even understand the rules of the game, let alone the strategies required to win.

        Lol very true. This pigeon refuses to play their arbitrary games. I’d rather poop on their faces.

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          1 year ago

          Unfortunately, that also means you lose the game. The prize being the attention and direction of the masses.

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            1 year ago

            Not necessarily. In fact, I would argue the only way to win is not to play. But this analogy is very loose, not really sure how much further it can be stretched.

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              Unfortunately, you not playing is an ideal outcome for them. It’s more brave new world than 1984. Most of the effort is to stop us paying attention to what they are doing, and stoping us reacting to that. If they can get us to react the wrong way, souch the better, but they don’t need us to.

              I’d argue getting people to do any BUT not play is a win for us. Our only advantage is weight of numbers. By not playing, you are taking yourself off the scales.

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                1 year ago

                Huh I’m confused. My position is that change from within the system is essentially impossible, and it is necessary to build structures and communities outside of the reach of the capitalist hegemony in order to bring it down. Thus, not playing into their game.

                Numbers don’t matter in capitalism, all of the power comes from possession of capital and control over the means of production, which is currently monopolized by a small global oligarchy. Any attempt to infiltrate this system seems to inevitably lead to the infiltrator becoming that which they sought to overthrow, namely an oppressor.

                Calvin and Hobbes is deep yo