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its the end of the world as we know it (quokk.au)
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Distract you from what? What ever your answer is, how do you know it isn't a distraction as well?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    You can kind of distill all the bullshit away. And what is left is truth. And that truth may not be pretty, it might be chaos. And when you get there paradoxes form in terms of the questions of "how to make this place more livable".

    That's not really a good answer to your question, I know. But this topic is basically impossible to simply express.

    Here are some of my thoughts that might bring together the ideas.

    https://reddthat.com/post/66616584/26975071

    https://reddthat.com/post/66572202/26949597

    https://reddthat.com/post/66305398/26862943

    Also this, which is from the first link...

    https://youtu.be/xKJ6NPEDuZA

    "...It's a vast subject, a dense subject. I can't possibly do justice to it in the time allowed. This means I'm going to have to insult your intelligence by skimming across the top of subjects that you could get a PhD dissertation written in and still not cover thoroughly. This massive documentation of course is the salvation of the intellectually attuned. I urge you to read for yourselves. Do not take anything I'm saying tonight as the gospel. I'm telling you that our leaders lie to us. They lie to us systematically. They lie to us with a purpose that may not be your purpose. Some of their lies, if you're a young man may motivate you, uh, to go off someday and die, be killed or to kill people."

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    So your take is that they control us. They control everything and manipulate us. Guess what, that's what both sides agree on. The question is, who are they? The Jews or other minority groups? Or the rich and wealthy who demonstrably hold actual power? Both sides will say that the elected rulers don't have the best interest of common people in mind. One side says elections are stolen, the other one says they are designed the favor the rich. One says the system is good but some people exploit it, the other says the system is the problem and we need a new one. Both sides look similar at first glance but one is the evil doppelganger of the other (to point to a great book by Naomi Klein about that topic).

    But you're not saying anything of relevance. Your points might be true or not, I don't care. But your not engaging the question of the meme. Your not beyond it, your behind.

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