Making honest people live a lie, especially an unstable ever changing lie, is humiliating and soul crushing. It's a demoralization torture tactic. It might red pill a few but for many it will work as intended.
It's not original to me. People from Solzhenitsyn to Theodore Dalrymple have written about it and IIRC it's touched upon in the Bezmenov video that gets posted here regularly.
The purpose isn't brainwashing, it's demoralization. But it's still mesmerizing in a way and it can be hard to break that hold. It's like being in an abusive relationship, because it is a kind of abusive relationship. And yes human nature is complex and often really messy.
I'm an eternal optimist too, albeit right now a very angry optimist. And a free thinker. And you're correct they are not that common. I wasn't thinking of free thought as a remedy so much as... some point of cognitive dissonance or conflict so profound that it could break the spellbinding effect. But I have no idea what that would be.
I'm more of the mind that we're living in a virtual reality, and there's a massive bug in the system. The developers all got killed off by something and shit has been going wrong since they left their posts.
Making honest people live a lie, especially an unstable ever changing lie, is humiliating and soul crushing. It's a demoralization torture tactic. It might red pill a few but for many it will work as intended.
Interesting point of view. You’re probably correct.
It's not original to me. People from Solzhenitsyn to Theodore Dalrymple have written about it and IIRC it's touched upon in the Bezmenov video that gets posted here regularly.
I’ve seen a good bit of the bezmenov stuff and it lines up with what he says pretty perfectly.
I think I may just be grasping straws looking for optimism lol
Maybe there's something in American cultural DNA that will cause it to backfire. But I don't have high hopes.
Human nature is a messy thing. It’s not like in satire or TV shows, where you can easily brainwash somebody into believing nonsense forever.
The purpose isn't brainwashing, it's demoralization. But it's still mesmerizing in a way and it can be hard to break that hold. It's like being in an abusive relationship, because it is a kind of abusive relationship. And yes human nature is complex and often really messy.
My point is, it doesn’t always work. And as long as you have a few people aware of what’s going on, a false system built on lies can’t hold forever.
I am an eternal optimist... cautious optimist maybe. But free thinkers are def hard to find I’d argue in any culture on this planet.
I'm an eternal optimist too, albeit right now a very angry optimist. And a free thinker. And you're correct they are not that common. I wasn't thinking of free thought as a remedy so much as... some point of cognitive dissonance or conflict so profound that it could break the spellbinding effect. But I have no idea what that would be.
I’ve been at a loss since the lockdowns started myself... but I have faith that something will wake up the masses.
And given that I’ll die a free man before living on my knees, the timeline that renders me dead doesn’t really concern me :P
Nietzsche's last man.
I've been saying its like a cry for help
I'm more of the mind that we're living in a virtual reality, and there's a massive bug in the system. The developers all got killed off by something and shit has been going wrong since they left their posts.
Advanced Sims.
Seems like their power grid would eventually go down tho right?
It's been nice knowing you all.
That's doublethink for you, mate. They find 1984 inspirational.