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Vin LoPresti's avatar

"Americans are the most propagandized population on earth". Pretty much says it all in one sentence. IRREDEEMABLE is the adjective that has formed in my brain after 75 years of observing my country-men and -women. A vastly powerful and all-encompassing neural-ablation ray-gun would be required to reset all synapses to the infantile state, restarting us all as blubbering infants, tabula rasas (rasae?)with only the biological potential engendered, after which strict isolation from mainstream culture would be necessary, as the ideas of peaceful co-existence among all beings in the natural world was inculcated instead. Only remedy I can fathom. Otherwise, it's good luck while you're vortexing into the depths, good ol' USA.

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Feral Finster's avatar

"The only reason the US empire isn’t seen for the horrifying blood-soaked dystopia it is is because of that very propaganda machine, which normalizes and glorifies this freakish status quo through both its “news” media and its mainstream culture manufacturing centers in New York and Los Angeles."

This blood-spaked dystopia is in fact far older than the United States or so-styled "western civilization". AFAICT, it is a universal of the human condition.

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