I know exactly how you feel, pede. I have good friends - otherwise kind and smart people - who insist that they are neutral and moderate and formulate all their own opinions without outside influence they are just totally free thinkers coming to their own conclusions based on the facts.
... And then they will tow the party line harder than a fucking tugboat and literally shout me down Chris Wallace style and say I'm 'distracting from the issue' when I dare deviate from the neat little script they have in their heads. Two friends have literally covered their ears and said "LaLaLaLaLa" like a fucking child and then called me closed minded!! The cognitive dissonance is remarkable. That's why we call them NPCs. They are not bad guys, but until the system changes and they are told it's okay to not tow the line they are just mind slaves to the enemy. Very much like the Matrix.
I'm more and more impressed with how apt an analogy the red pill is. (Ironic that it was invented by trannies.)
Even before I was interested in politics, when a friend first told me what "Woke" was, I told him it sounded stupid. Thinking back, I can recall how physically uncomfortable it made him just to hear that kind of push back.
I'm more and more impressed with how apt an analogy the red pill is. (Ironic that it was invented by trannies.)
Ironic, hilarious, and still apt considering this is exactly the kind of cultural programming they were alluding to, and they weren't trannies at the time.
Here's a good video about how The Matrix is in no way an allegory for transgenderism even though they tried pretending it was.
I know exactly how you feel, pede. I have good friends - otherwise kind and smart people - who insist that they are neutral and moderate and formulate all their own opinions without outside influence they are just totally free thinkers coming to their own conclusions based on the facts.
... And then they will tow the party line harder than a fucking tugboat and literally shout me down Chris Wallace style and say I'm 'distracting from the issue' when I dare deviate from the neat little script they have in their heads. Two friends have literally covered their ears and said "LaLaLaLaLa" like a fucking child and then called me closed minded!! The cognitive dissonance is remarkable. That's why we call them NPCs. They are not bad guys, but until the system changes and they are told it's okay to not tow the line they are just mind slaves to the enemy. Very much like the Matrix.
I'm more and more impressed with how apt an analogy the red pill is. (Ironic that it was invented by trannies.)
Even before I was interested in politics, when a friend first told me what "Woke" was, I told him it sounded stupid. Thinking back, I can recall how physically uncomfortable it made him just to hear that kind of push back.
Ironic, hilarious, and still apt considering this is exactly the kind of cultural programming they were alluding to, and they weren't trannies at the time.
Here's a good video about how The Matrix is in no way an allegory for transgenderism even though they tried pretending it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQnMmFvKNc
Sweet, thanks for the link.
I was actually thinking about this last month when I rewatched the Matrix for the first time since I had heard that theory and it seemed totally bunk.