Other than “coping mechanism #2” I disagree almost completely with what you’ve written. It’s a nihilistic black pill seemingly meant to poison the minds of the impressionable.
You state so unequivocally that there is no free will, no point to resistance, what are you a fucking borg sent here to assimilate us?
Yes, everyone has free will. But, we are like a stone rolling down hill...all we can do is chose the direction because we have no control over gravity. Another analogy is that we are a dog tied to a cart, you can trot alongside or be dragged, either way it's a choice.
Denying free will is license for evil. It's Sam Harris bunk. It's denying your moral agency, and therefor, your responsibility.
People in power don't solve problems because there is no such thing as the "public good," which is to say that what's in the good of the public depends on the ruling coalition at the time. It swings wildly every 2-4 years.
Also, there is no way to aggregate "the public" into a collective opinion.
Even if there was a way to know what the public good is, they public now, via polling as we know, supports contradictory things like low taxes and high levels of benefits! The "public" also doesn't have an opinion on most topics facing politicians, and if they do, it's often uninformed. The public decides things on a very gut level. It is often wrong.
Lastly, democracy is not majority rule. While supporters say that's what it is, in practice it's actually not. Optimal Pareto distributions are never achieved because politicians only pay attention to organized specialized constituencies (the ones that lobby with time and money). Therefore, since politicians cannot know what the public en masse wants, and since the public en masse rarely if ever makes their demands known because organization like that is virtually impossible, they only pay attention to special constituencies that lobby as only small groups are able to be so organized. Even if the lobbying group says they represent a majority of public opinion, which may or not be true, only the small group is organized and does the lobbying.
Other than “coping mechanism #2” I disagree almost completely with what you’ve written. It’s a nihilistic black pill seemingly meant to poison the minds of the impressionable.
You state so unequivocally that there is no free will, no point to resistance, what are you a fucking borg sent here to assimilate us?
Figuring out as a group the forgotten knowledge
https://conspiracies.win/p/11RhYGNOR6/the-root-of-all-conspiracy-is-hu/c/
https://conspiracies.win/p/11S0bhAMwC/why-has-the-smithsonian-covered-/c/
Et al
I highly object to your first bulletpoint. Denying free will and embracing victimhood is exactly what TPTB want us to do.
Free will is empowerment and strength, and without that you might as well be a slave in a Chinese factory.
The way out of this is to embrace your divinity and reject victimhood. Radical self responsibility is the way forward.
Yes, everyone has free will. But, we are like a stone rolling down hill...all we can do is chose the direction because we have no control over gravity. Another analogy is that we are a dog tied to a cart, you can trot alongside or be dragged, either way it's a choice.
Denying free will is license for evil. It's Sam Harris bunk. It's denying your moral agency, and therefor, your responsibility.
People in power don't solve problems because there is no such thing as the "public good," which is to say that what's in the good of the public depends on the ruling coalition at the time. It swings wildly every 2-4 years.
Also, there is no way to aggregate "the public" into a collective opinion.
Even if there was a way to know what the public good is, they public now, via polling as we know, supports contradictory things like low taxes and high levels of benefits! The "public" also doesn't have an opinion on most topics facing politicians, and if they do, it's often uninformed. The public decides things on a very gut level. It is often wrong.
Lastly, democracy is not majority rule. While supporters say that's what it is, in practice it's actually not. Optimal Pareto distributions are never achieved because politicians only pay attention to organized specialized constituencies (the ones that lobby with time and money). Therefore, since politicians cannot know what the public en masse wants, and since the public en masse rarely if ever makes their demands known because organization like that is virtually impossible, they only pay attention to special constituencies that lobby as only small groups are able to be so organized. Even if the lobbying group says they represent a majority of public opinion, which may or not be true, only the small group is organized and does the lobbying.