- 14 Oct 2024 17:27
#15327159
Complicity: giving billions of dollars worth of drill bits and cannibal recipes
to Jeffrey Dahmer
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When you're 10 years old, you often doubt the existence of Santa Claus, but you have learned to "go along with it" in order to receive hundreds of dollars worth of gifts. Even if most of these gifts turn out to be relatively useless, money has been spent, and you have been made "passive" throughout the early winter so that your parents can enjoy a bit of peace despite your house-bound condition.
Children learn to "pretend to believe silly lies" in order to receive a reward. (bribe)
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When they get older, these former children are told things like "Arabs are all terrorists" and "My ingroup can save the world."
These are obvious lies, but the Western lie-consumer "goes along with it" in order to enjoy cheap, available resources (especially Arab-country-sourced oil) and so, like the young Santa-doubter, he learns to play along, which re-inforces this lie for the society all around this lie-consumer.
Santa-believers get new toys, Mass media-believers get cheap oil.
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When Guy Debord talks about how humans live in an alternative world because of mass media lies, he is describing the same phenomenon. Humans who have been conditioned to believe lies.
This dynamic has created mass stupidity, and may cause human extinction.
When you're 10 years old, you often doubt the existence of Santa Claus, but you have learned to "go along with it" in order to receive hundreds of dollars worth of gifts. Even if most of these gifts turn out to be relatively useless, money has been spent, and you have been made "passive" throughout the early winter so that your parents can enjoy a bit of peace despite your house-bound condition.
Children learn to "pretend to believe silly lies" in order to receive a reward. (bribe)
***
When they get older, these former children are told things like "Arabs are all terrorists" and "My ingroup can save the world."
These are obvious lies, but the Western lie-consumer "goes along with it" in order to enjoy cheap, available resources (especially Arab-country-sourced oil) and so, like the young Santa-doubter, he learns to play along, which re-inforces this lie for the society all around this lie-consumer.
Santa-believers get new toys, Mass media-believers get cheap oil.
***
When Guy Debord talks about how humans live in an alternative world because of mass media lies, he is describing the same phenomenon. Humans who have been conditioned to believe lies.
This dynamic has created mass stupidity, and may cause human extinction.
Complicity: giving billions of dollars worth of drill bits and cannibal recipes
to Jeffrey Dahmer