I studied philosophy because I wanted to learn about truth. Instead I was taught all the different ways people are controlled. But if you look up any philosophical model on the internet today, you find (first you find that even the scholarly websites have been extensively edited quite recently) that anyone who mentions societal control is a conspiracist in league with the likes of Alex Jones. Well, take their word for that, don't question what you are told, and certainly don't bother reading it for yourself. Everything is just fine, under control, if you prefer.

Censorship and Desensitization

Banned from Facebook for 24 hours. For what? Equating adult men who prey upon underage girls with swine. FB says "men are pigs" is hate speech. I think we are being desensitized to rampant censorship. What do you think?

Appears I can't upload screenshot here. Ugh. Whatever.

Indoctrination

Science is never settled. That's kinda the whole point of science. 

If it were absolute truth, it wouldn't be science, it would be religion instead.

Forcing it down someone's throat doesn't make it any easier to swallow.

Swallow This

 If the goal is to change someone else's beliefs, opinion, position, or actions, what you are dealing isn't "facts" but brainwash, by definition (look it up).

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With that in mind, are you still surprised by their immediate knee-jerk rejection of the information you are so (not) helpfully providing?

Friendstacy comments on Authoritarian Rule

 i'm not trying to change your mind. how could you possibly agree with my point of view, with it being so different than yours? but I am very grateful for the opportunity to discuss these things. the way I see it, dominance is aggression, aggression is violence even if it's not physically injurious (but there's always that threat of physical injury, isn't there?) If you have a chain of command, with some people above other people, you have rule based upon authority. the very organization of society into heirarchies of command is what makes it authoritarian. we have to start there, at the foundation upon which sits all the premises that attempt to prove freedom invalid.

You betta you betta you bet

 

Saturday, January 9, 2021

it's not just the last four years
it's the last 400 years
denial got us where we are today
the warning signs were always there
it's time now to stop ignoring it
stop making excuses for it
and finally put it to an end

January 8, 2021

it's okay to change your mind
you don't even have to admit 
that maybe you were wrong

if nobody ever learned anything new
we'd still be eating uncooked rabbits
that we strangled with our own hands

January 7, 2021

my heart hurts so much right now
i don't know what happened yesterday
the president incited a riot
and the rioters were allowed
to storm the capital building
how does this even happen?

"not all trump supporters"
just doesn't cut it 
"not all men" are rapists
and not all of hitler's supporters
wanted to kill jewish people
but that's not the point.
you have aligned yourself
with violent racist nationalists
(there is no denying that anymore, either)
who can't let go of the mentality
that says "might makes right" 
now you have to call them out
because the whole world
thinks you are just as bad as they are
can we burn that stupid red hat
or will we let this tear our family apart
the same way it's tearing our country apart?
because in the end, we all have to live together
and figure out a way to get along