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We like watching America's Got Talent and big talents shows like that .... recently I just began to realize ...
Historians will be noting how we were all wrapped up in these big talent shows and feel good programs while the entire political landscape just slowly slid into WWIII without anyone really paying attention.
We are paying attention but we all feel like there's nothing we can do to stop it so we try to numb the pain.
Dear future historians: You wil look back in horror but know that we feel helpless. The only parallel we have ended in a world war that had to be ended by a newly arisen superpower. And that scares the shit out of us.
Yeah, watched Adam Curtis' 'Hypernormalisation' dokumentation and was like, oh that's why I feel like this. Goes to show, the sleep of reason produces monsters.
Anyways completely unrelated to this, I'm limiting my social media intake and am now looking to unionize my workplace lol.
I watched that a couple of years ago and it was a definite realization of the world we live in and how it got this way. One of the most necessary documentaries that everyone should watch.
Move your social media use to places like Mastodon and get your new union members to talk there. You will find plenty of union minded people there once you start exploring the communities everywhere. Mastodon is still so new that not many company minded people go there ... those same corporate people instead go to the big private social media sites instead and don't even think that there is any alternative.
America was created by violence any change that ever occurs has occurred through conflict. You don't ask a bully to stop
I can only consume so much bad news before I go binge watch something funny or a show where good triumphs over evil.
It might be learned helplessness, but right now there don't seem to be a lot of things normal citizens can do. Crazy people took over, and all the protesting and pleading in the world won't prevent them from doing what they want to do.
My guess is the protests will be escalated by the administration. Maybe they'll toss in a few paid agitators. A cop or ice agent gets shot. Trump makes a rambling speech about law and order. Declares martial law and becomes a real dictator. The protests have been largely cool so far and it is obvious that is not what he is looking for.
Anyways yeah, sorry I'm going to watch some TV and dissociate.
I hate to say it but on many nights and evenings .... I feel and do the same.
I'm older, my wife is chronically sick, we can't leave house and I spend most of my days reading and watching how the world is falling apart and there is not much I do about it all.
I'm fairly certain this is the plan, but he's going to wait to pull out his martial law card for when they need to suspend elections. I 100% expect to see some fuckery in '28. I'm guessing that's when the war will begin.
TOS s2e25 "Bread and Circuses"
One of my biggest peeves, things that end before
'Panem et circenses' .... a phrase that's been used, suggested, implied and actually played out for hundreds of years in society.
Also never noticed how built Bones was until I saw that jiggly bicep.
You make an interesting point. If I flip it around. WWI and II both began in a mostly pre-television world. I guess you could say televison has brought safety?
I think it's worse ... much much worse.
A hundred to two hundred years ago, it was hard to control people and entertain them enmasse ... the best way they knew how was through violence .... yet WWI and WWII happened anyway.
Now we have a million ways to entertain and distract people but at the same time a million ways and reasons to start WWIII
Back in olden times unless you were a total nerd you could get a few radio stations and, if you’re lucky, three whole TV stations. Getting everyone to think the same thing was easy when they all got their news and culture from the same place.
Now we are extremely fragmented, with tons of niche groups. Yet we seem more influenced than ever by the news feed of current events.
The vast majority, yes. And some are standing next to you, shaking you, dying on the streets, getting shot by murder groups called "police".
Its like "boring dystopia" reshaped into "boring horrormovie"
The historians will not mention it like this, most likely. They will rewrite history as we have always done to fit the narrative of the current dictator.
And they will keep smearing better systems as "the real evil".
Its like idiocracy and dont look up had hateful sex and got a disgusting supercharged dystopia baby.