Its Utopianism... the bad kind... "Hey, if I know the magic words, I can get out of any trouble!!" Its Harry Potter shit that predates Harry Potter by generations.
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It's what happens when you grow up in a country where you're told that FREEDOM FROM TYRANNY and all that is paramount, but then you start to realize that, even in a society full of FREEDOM there's rules to be followed, and those rules suck: you gotta pay fees to get a licence, and then you can't do some stuff, and maybe you get a fine for some neighbourhood bylaw and now have to go to court. It's the freedom fetish of American civic religion coming up against the reality of living in a modern society.
love how folks who 100% believe this also fly the blue lives matter flag without a smidge of self-awareness
remember last year when amon bundy said he supported blm and his followers freaked out
Because at the end of the day it's just their justification for "I'm white and I can do whatever the hell I want"
I once made a much more respectful Blue Lives flag by maintaining the red, white and blue.
by making a blue silhouette of an officer filled with 50 stars and 13 red streaks running down
Because people want to believe :possadist-ufo: 👽
Aha but you see those judges are actually wrong about what the law says, they'll surely be booted out once I explain the situation to Teacher.
Civic religion cargo cult, they're dazzled by the power of the state over their lives (like, idk, speed limits and bans on raw milk) but also don't understand where it comes from or how it works so they're reduced to ritualistically mimicking its language and symbols in an attempt to wield the power for themselves.
How do people convince themselves that this is real when there are so many videos of people with similarly melted brains proving that this absolutely never works?
It's a question of faith, not evidence, like any religion.