big_fat_fluffy

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[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty darn weak.

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space -5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm still not seeing a specific accusation.

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well, you answered your own question 3 times. Consider the nature of that kind of conversation.

In a nutshell, thinking coarsens as it passes hand to hand. First-hand is finest. Fourth-hand is a crude and nigh-solipsistic.

So that's one argument for independent thought.

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that isolating oneself in a cave might be best.

Imagine an illusion, the matrix, built not of scifi machinery but of habit, maintained by the presence of others.

Get alone and the habits dissolve. And then the invisible becomes visible.

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

Because drugs are bad mmmkay?

And drugs are defined by tv shows. Drugs are pills.

Also, talk about drugs anywhere and you'll encounter 40-somethings with an unreasonable hatred of drugs. They get crazy. That's the "just say no" propaganda talking. It was pushed in the schools in the 80s, and we still hear the echoes.

It's a testament to the power of media and propaganda.

 

I mean, we all hear about people thinking what they think only because the people around them think it too. So how do you avoid doing that?

 

For example : Megadeaths happen with nary an eye batted in Japanese movies, but you rarely see that kind of thing in the American. And the total dominance of the aristocracy over the underclasses is as assumed and invisible as gravity in French movies, but it seems to be taboo elsewhere.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

Both :
Give pleasure. Alter your consciousness. Are addictive. Are delivered via a small, portable device.

 

Or was Darkness just blowing smoke?

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