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        Arrogance has little to do with making these strategic considerations. If anything arrogance is a strategy that comes from dealing with things like backlash etc. The cause is not arrogant people, or people lacking self awareness because of arrogance. It’s simple economics in a way.

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          It is arrogance in not thinking they have to fear the people, or the government.

          It’s the same reason our politicians are now openly corrupt.

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          They’re… Crazy is a vast often thought terminating simplification, but I do think it applies to many of them. Not what I mean.

          I mean psychological damage from excessive hard-slop yes-man culture and chatbot use. Things that would ruin any of us.

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      And our governments.

      Half these shit ass companies got funding from the government to do exactly what they do. I don’t get why people chug on left right and center dick when it’s all attached to the same monster culture.

      It’s almost as if the mentality of western culture as a single unit, is moreso the problem than the government… We have all been groomed to live our entire lives to keep this monster growing. It’s not even about political parties, cops and these microcosms… There’s people with good intentions and bad intentions in all aspects… Left right or center. Why? Because they are all groomed since birth to live for something universally unatural that requires constant oversight and war to maintain. They choose to live against the universe in order to control the narrative instead of choosing to work with the universe and nature to simply exist without greed.

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        Democracy is owned by those that understand psychology and have the means to manipulate.

        If you like 4 hour long documentaries, i think you might be interested in Adam curtis’s “Century Of The Self”. Pretty sure its on YouTube

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        Pretty much. As someone who dedicated my life to language it’s been particularly unpleasant to watch its use as communication medium and meaning-making thing die over the course of a decade or less. I hate everyone involved.

        At least they’re full of passionate intensity.

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        Democracy hasn’t been authentic for decades. It’s literally theater now.

        I regard most voting as giving your okay to have decisions made for you and not by you. The owning classes wouldn’t OK their democracy shpiel if it didn’t play a vital role in sustaining the system at this point. It’s as if they’re trying to say “oh, just go to the voting booth. We are one people and we are totally not divided through opposing interests. My interests are totally your interests, now go and vote for the candidate that managed to receive enough funds to compete, which is btw everyone on the ballot”

        I don’t think voting is terrible, on Wikipedia it seems to work quite well (and is not overused) because there is no real social stratification on that site like in the real world and everyone is united in the goal of creating a decent, stable source of knowledge. But a lot of democracy, even many direct forms of it, have shown themselves to be tools to legitimate state terrorism and to condition popular support from the people most negatively affected by present political decisions.

        Here is a semi decent video about the futility of the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_AFv5Z7qI