"Lies are comforting. Truth is scary.". Respectfully, disagree. As a youth, like many, I lived within a community based on numerous official lies. Yes, it felt safe, but I never really felt comfortable. There was always this sense that something was deeply wrong which made me highly uncomfortable and somewhat self destructive. One might call it an ever present inchoate anxiety. Those normies that never challenge the Imperialist narrative, that focus only on their personal life experience, family, etc, they really aren't as happy as they look. At this stage of collapse, you'd have to be on some pretty heavy meds to not at least notice that things aren't right. And I think this is a cause for hope. Revolutionary sentiments develop when working people just cannot live as they used to. That's where we are today. To quote a wise guy: "Everyone responds differently to a political argument, but everyone responds the same way to a hot poker.". We are in the hot poker phase of history, when it's next to impossible not to notice that every authority, every school, all media every courthouse, basically everything is set up in such a way as to hurt the majority of the population and aid a tiny minority.
>>"you'd have to be on some pretty heavy meds to not at least notice that things aren't right."
It's not that people don't notice. It's that many people simply don't care. There is a difference between knowing something and caring enough about it to actually DO something to change things.
Again. Respectfully disagree. Those that don't care are a small number and most are members of the ruling class and their flunkies. Don't believe me? Stand on any busy corner and say "End the genocide" for an hour or two. You'll be shocked at what support you'll find. The real problem is one of leadership and organization. If the wage slaves see a viable offramp they will flood into it. Build it and they will indeed come!
>>"Those that don't care are a small number and most are members of the ruling class and their flunkies."
Not so. You'd be surprised if you got out more into the real world (on a global level).
As to your 'anecdotal evidence' (i.e. personal experience) that you base your assumptions/beliefs upon, that's exactly what it is - one sample data point in an ocean of data points. To extrapolate your assumptions on YOUR experiences alone leads to faulty conclusions.
Again, you seem to misunderstand (or not weight adequately) the difference between 'noticing', 'verbal support', etc. and ACTUAL MEANINGFUL ACTION (as in protests, sit-ins, and so many others).
The reality is (whether you wish to notice and admit it or not) that NOT ENOUGH people CARE DEEPLY ENOUGH to do something about it. The ones that do are, unfortunately, in the minority.
>>"Build it and they will indeed come!"
This 'build it and they will come' philosophy does not pan out (in the business world or otherwise). Think of how many product failures there have been in the business world for starters. No, just "build it and they will come" is an irrational (though optimistic) philosophy. One needs to build the RIGHT things (or movements) at the apporpriate times and target it towards appropriate segments of the population (people), and more.
"Lies are comforting. Truth is scary.". Respectfully, disagree. As a youth, like many, I lived within a community based on numerous official lies. Yes, it felt safe, but I never really felt comfortable. There was always this sense that something was deeply wrong which made me highly uncomfortable and somewhat self destructive. One might call it an ever present inchoate anxiety. Those normies that never challenge the Imperialist narrative, that focus only on their personal life experience, family, etc, they really aren't as happy as they look. At this stage of collapse, you'd have to be on some pretty heavy meds to not at least notice that things aren't right. And I think this is a cause for hope. Revolutionary sentiments develop when working people just cannot live as they used to. That's where we are today. To quote a wise guy: "Everyone responds differently to a political argument, but everyone responds the same way to a hot poker.". We are in the hot poker phase of history, when it's next to impossible not to notice that every authority, every school, all media every courthouse, basically everything is set up in such a way as to hurt the majority of the population and aid a tiny minority.
>>"you'd have to be on some pretty heavy meds to not at least notice that things aren't right."
It's not that people don't notice. It's that many people simply don't care. There is a difference between knowing something and caring enough about it to actually DO something to change things.
Again. Respectfully disagree. Those that don't care are a small number and most are members of the ruling class and their flunkies. Don't believe me? Stand on any busy corner and say "End the genocide" for an hour or two. You'll be shocked at what support you'll find. The real problem is one of leadership and organization. If the wage slaves see a viable offramp they will flood into it. Build it and they will indeed come!
>>"Those that don't care are a small number and most are members of the ruling class and their flunkies."
Not so. You'd be surprised if you got out more into the real world (on a global level).
As to your 'anecdotal evidence' (i.e. personal experience) that you base your assumptions/beliefs upon, that's exactly what it is - one sample data point in an ocean of data points. To extrapolate your assumptions on YOUR experiences alone leads to faulty conclusions.
Again, you seem to misunderstand (or not weight adequately) the difference between 'noticing', 'verbal support', etc. and ACTUAL MEANINGFUL ACTION (as in protests, sit-ins, and so many others).
The reality is (whether you wish to notice and admit it or not) that NOT ENOUGH people CARE DEEPLY ENOUGH to do something about it. The ones that do are, unfortunately, in the minority.
>>"Build it and they will indeed come!"
This 'build it and they will come' philosophy does not pan out (in the business world or otherwise). Think of how many product failures there have been in the business world for starters. No, just "build it and they will come" is an irrational (though optimistic) philosophy. One needs to build the RIGHT things (or movements) at the apporpriate times and target it towards appropriate segments of the population (people), and more.
Well, ok. Still disagree.
Good for you. You can disagree till the cows come home. Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
Alrighty.