Because since the Patriot Act, the power of the media has been manipulating and brainwashing the average person to the point where facts and reality no longer matter and people just accept whatever the press says is true and they dont have the time or skills to verify anything on their own.
The average adult has a work day from about 6am to 6pm (including shitty commutes), then they have to make dinner and try to eat that in time to take the kids to baseball, soccer, swimming practice, mentoring, ballet, music lessons, boy scouts or whatever until probably 8:30 or 9pm. Then they get the kids home, into bed and maybe... just maybe they might be able to squeeze in some news or sports from 10pm to 11pm before they go to sleep and repeat the whole process again. Weekends are used for doing everything you didnt have time to do during the week like groceries, cleaning, getting the car fixed, etc, and maybe sneaking in a fuck or two after you got the kids to bed by midnight.
None of this is accidental, I think, and all the media has to do is keep lying and misrepresenting reality because most people can’t keep up with the shifting goalposts so they need someone to do it for them.
For those few of us who think for ourselves and actually spend the time to catch the lies and sort out whats real and what isn’t, they simply hire shills and propaganda agents to keep the thinkers distracted and the waters of reality muddy enough that we can’t lend our skills to those who need our help.
Bravo! I think your appraoch is a little too much for myself and many others though. It sounds like you are after the full blown Libertarian ideal, which is respectable.
I’m of the opinion that we should no longer let the stupidest and laziest of our society dictate the needs and desires of the majority. It’s shocking how incredibly bad senior management is at large corporations and also representing the people in government. The only reason any of these people are successful is because of the labor of those they employ, and not because of their own skill set. Look at Bezos for example... without capable programmers, shippers, market analysts, and so forth he would simply be another loser with a .com startup that failed in the early 2000’s. He got lucky, and now he acts like a feudal king. Wtf?
I’m growing fonder and fonder of the idea of Labor Unions making a resurgence. Now that I see how hard the rich manipulate us through their weaponized media, I’m coming realize that its Labor Unions which keep large corporations and their government lackeys in check. These people have convinced the public that unions are out of control socialism, but in reality a healthy system of labor unions is an indicator of a healthy, well functioning, capitalist economic system. Proof: how many dictatorships and communist regimes allow for labor unions in their states?
Because since the Patriot Act, the power of the media has been manipulating and brainwashing the average person to the point where facts and reality no longer matter and people just accept whatever the press says is true and they dont have the time or skills to verify anything on their own.
The average adult has a work day from about 6am to 6pm (including shitty commutes), then they have to make dinner and try to eat that in time to take the kids to baseball, soccer, swimming practice, mentoring, ballet, music lessons, boy scouts or whatever until probably 8:30 or 9pm. Then they get the kids home, into bed and maybe... just maybe they might be able to squeeze in some news or sports from 10pm to 11pm before they go to sleep and repeat the whole process again. Weekends are used for doing everything you didnt have time to do during the week like groceries, cleaning, getting the car fixed, etc, and maybe sneaking in a fuck or two after you got the kids to bed by midnight.
None of this is accidental, I think, and all the media has to do is keep lying and misrepresenting reality because most people can’t keep up with the shifting goalposts so they need someone to do it for them.
For those few of us who think for ourselves and actually spend the time to catch the lies and sort out whats real and what isn’t, they simply hire shills and propaganda agents to keep the thinkers distracted and the waters of reality muddy enough that we can’t lend our skills to those who need our help.
Bravo! I think your appraoch is a little too much for myself and many others though. It sounds like you are after the full blown Libertarian ideal, which is respectable.
I’m of the opinion that we should no longer let the stupidest and laziest of our society dictate the needs and desires of the majority. It’s shocking how incredibly bad senior management is at large corporations and also representing the people in government. The only reason any of these people are successful is because of the labor of those they employ, and not because of their own skill set. Look at Bezos for example... without capable programmers, shippers, market analysts, and so forth he would simply be another loser with a .com startup that failed in the early 2000’s. He got lucky, and now he acts like a feudal king. Wtf?
I’m growing fonder and fonder of the idea of Labor Unions making a resurgence. Now that I see how hard the rich manipulate us through their weaponized media, I’m coming realize that its Labor Unions which keep large corporations and their government lackeys in check. These people have convinced the public that unions are out of control socialism, but in reality a healthy system of labor unions is an indicator of a healthy, well functioning, capitalist economic system. Proof: how many dictatorships and communist regimes allow for labor unions in their states?