[Jean, I'm replying to your original comment here because this new Substack interface won't let me comment to your comment below. Apparently, the number of replies in a thread are now limited.]
First, I thought Patrick Powers’s comment below was excellent, and funny. So I was responding to the idea of “we all make our own reality” rather than responding to you personally. My main point in my comment to Patrick Powers is that we ought to give this increasingly popular “I-make-my-own-reality” notion the amount of critical thought it deserves, because while it may seem innocent enough—even an attractive and hopeful idea—our rulers and owners can and will use it against us.
For example, the pandemic? That had nothing whatsoever to do with Dr. Fauci’s corruption or Bill Gates’ greed or media spewing the lies of Big Pharma. Nope, that was me; I was just making my own shitty reality. Fauci and Gates and Pfizer have absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for all the death and financial ruin they caused.
The NATO proxy war in Ukraine? That’s just me again making my own reality; it has nothing to do with Victoria Nuland or Blinken or Zelensky or Joe Biden? They didn’t cause it, I did, because I am making my own reality. Or, if I’m homeless, I’m just making my own reality? If I’m poor, I'm just making my own reality? If I’m sick, am I just making my own reality? If I am, that sounds suspiciously like what capitalists and neoliberals tell us at every opportunity--that every bad thing happens because we are lazy, or because we made stupid investments, or because we’re just not ambitious or smart enough. The capitalists are quick to tell us that all bad things happen because we deserve them, because it obviously isn’t the fault of the capitalist system. So, in any tyrannical system, the ruler will just love it if we assume all responsibility for our own reality because that lets the ruler or the elites or other parasites off the hook.
However, just to be safe, if you really are making this reality—if you really are Vishnu dozing on a lily pad and dreaming the world—then how about sending me the numbers for the next Powerball jackpot. Oh, and putting Fauci in prison and ending the War in Ukraine would also be nice, and maybe could you throw a few million votes to RFK, jr. in the next election.
Whatever. As I’ve said before, do what you want. I don’t care if you believe my ideas. I don’t even care if you make fun of them. (Actually, that just tell me more about you and the level of your awareness). But it makes answering you pointless as it seems you’re not open to anything new, you just want to repeat over and over how horrible everyone else is and not look at yourself and how you’re contributing to this horror show by saying it’s out there and not in you.
[Jean, I'm replying to your original comment here because this new Substack interface won't let me comment to your comment below. Apparently, the number of replies in a thread are now limited.]
First, I thought Patrick Powers’s comment below was excellent, and funny. So I was responding to the idea of “we all make our own reality” rather than responding to you personally. My main point in my comment to Patrick Powers is that we ought to give this increasingly popular “I-make-my-own-reality” notion the amount of critical thought it deserves, because while it may seem innocent enough—even an attractive and hopeful idea—our rulers and owners can and will use it against us.
For example, the pandemic? That had nothing whatsoever to do with Dr. Fauci’s corruption or Bill Gates’ greed or media spewing the lies of Big Pharma. Nope, that was me; I was just making my own shitty reality. Fauci and Gates and Pfizer have absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for all the death and financial ruin they caused.
The NATO proxy war in Ukraine? That’s just me again making my own reality; it has nothing to do with Victoria Nuland or Blinken or Zelensky or Joe Biden? They didn’t cause it, I did, because I am making my own reality. Or, if I’m homeless, I’m just making my own reality? If I’m poor, I'm just making my own reality? If I’m sick, am I just making my own reality? If I am, that sounds suspiciously like what capitalists and neoliberals tell us at every opportunity--that every bad thing happens because we are lazy, or because we made stupid investments, or because we’re just not ambitious or smart enough. The capitalists are quick to tell us that all bad things happen because we deserve them, because it obviously isn’t the fault of the capitalist system. So, in any tyrannical system, the ruler will just love it if we assume all responsibility for our own reality because that lets the ruler or the elites or other parasites off the hook.
However, just to be safe, if you really are making this reality—if you really are Vishnu dozing on a lily pad and dreaming the world—then how about sending me the numbers for the next Powerball jackpot. Oh, and putting Fauci in prison and ending the War in Ukraine would also be nice, and maybe could you throw a few million votes to RFK, jr. in the next election.
Whatever. As I’ve said before, do what you want. I don’t care if you believe my ideas. I don’t even care if you make fun of them. (Actually, that just tell me more about you and the level of your awareness). But it makes answering you pointless as it seems you’re not open to anything new, you just want to repeat over and over how horrible everyone else is and not look at yourself and how you’re contributing to this horror show by saying it’s out there and not in you.