Tall Midget wrote:
denisdman wrote:
Doug, I agree with your sentiments, but the station has been at the leading edge of telling us to punch the button. It was either agree with them or go elsewhere. There is no more fun. No diversity of opinion. God forbid you believe, “they’re taking away our freedoms.” You’re just a person to be mocked.
Look where we’re at. Shameful.
The Score's attitude in this regard is simply a reflection of our broader society, including this board.
The neoliberal aesthetic of humiliation--which Boers and Bernstein were leaders in developing--has become hegemonic and pervasive across the media and within almost every form of self-expression.
Rather than holding power to account for fostering a society built on economic inequality and social marginalization, ordinary people hold their peers to account for their perceived character flaws and other obvious but largely inconsequential shortcomings. Rather than afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted, we humiliate the afflicted and pay tribute to our ostensible betters. We have no social vision and, what's worse, no moral compass. Our leaders have failed us just as we have fail ourselves. It's little wonder, then, that we also live in failed state incapable of managing public health, maintaining a productive economy, ameliorating racial oppression or addressing a climate catastrophe.
People have always held their peers to account for their perceived character flaws. Before civil liberty I would have been fired from my job and had a cross burning in my yard for marrying outside my race.
Now we are publicly shamed; not so different then the medieval era when we shackled sinners and spit, threw rocks and harassed them in the public square.
Only our shackles are social media bannings and people belittling you across multiple platforms and media.
We have not lost social vision. It has just been replaced with social media. No longer do we gain our social cues from the natural environment. We gain them from the virtual environment. When people say we are living in the Matrix, they are not that far off. The internet is what you make of it. Look at the board, it is a good example. We all experience the same current events, but have very different views on these events. Not because of what we have experienced in our environment, but what we have experienced in the virtual world.
You say the state has failed, but I say they have succeeded in their master plan. We give them a pass on public health as long as our 401K's and stocks are in the green. Turn us against ourselves in the name of racial oppression and ignore the poverty in the streets created from government "programs" to control a population. Pushing climate control only enough to generate a generation of voters and not pushing for real change for fear of losing their base.
The state is running as planned and it needs a reset.
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