You have called Assange a hero, more than once, with good reason and a couple others. You do good work and are putting ideas out there that oppose the narrative. That's a good thing. Reading your work, I have thought you were a good person...reading this article, maybe you're just not a sociopath. ;) It isn't that we are only taught to look for heroes outside ourselves, we are told not be one. "Don't be a hero, cementaries are full of them."
We aren't taught to think, we are taught to repeat, that's the purpose of propaganda, to have it repeated and believed. "The bigger the lie, the bigger the mass of people to believe it." Here is the thing, with me. Even if I believed every lie the empire told me. I still wouldn't want war with Russia or China. Why? I'd understand the reprocussions of such. In my youth, I believed many lies and some ideologies. Now I believe less lies but keep those ideologies and one of those ideologies was a world were people weren't under an oppressive empire. There was a time I believed the US empire was good, but the ideologies and reality became increasingly contrasted to a point where I found the truth.
You may not be great, Kaitlin, but you represent a more compassionate side of humanity. In your work, you remind me that my views aren't insane. I speak about your article about being ruled by assholes. Put you on a pedastal? No, maybe offer a comfortable seat, I have implied the US would do to you what it is doing to Assange. Torture is wrong and only a twisted mind thinks otherwise. Why would the government go to great lengths to oppress free speech? It doesn't want the truth heard or known.
You have called Assange a hero, more than once, with good reason and a couple others. You do good work and are putting ideas out there that oppose the narrative. That's a good thing. Reading your work, I have thought you were a good person...reading this article, maybe you're just not a sociopath. ;) It isn't that we are only taught to look for heroes outside ourselves, we are told not be one. "Don't be a hero, cementaries are full of them."
We aren't taught to think, we are taught to repeat, that's the purpose of propaganda, to have it repeated and believed. "The bigger the lie, the bigger the mass of people to believe it." Here is the thing, with me. Even if I believed every lie the empire told me. I still wouldn't want war with Russia or China. Why? I'd understand the reprocussions of such. In my youth, I believed many lies and some ideologies. Now I believe less lies but keep those ideologies and one of those ideologies was a world were people weren't under an oppressive empire. There was a time I believed the US empire was good, but the ideologies and reality became increasingly contrasted to a point where I found the truth.
You may not be great, Kaitlin, but you represent a more compassionate side of humanity. In your work, you remind me that my views aren't insane. I speak about your article about being ruled by assholes. Put you on a pedastal? No, maybe offer a comfortable seat, I have implied the US would do to you what it is doing to Assange. Torture is wrong and only a twisted mind thinks otherwise. Why would the government go to great lengths to oppress free speech? It doesn't want the truth heard or known.