Even at loss of limb, those who escape are the 144000, sent to show others the way?
The memory hole is real.
Thank you!
Don’t give governments ideas. They already strap bombs on the sharks.
Don’t forget logging, for paper products and… Well nevermind furniture, but plywood and such, anyway. Housing industry, I guess.
The world I imagine wouldn’t need tunnels, or land grabs or genocide.
Imagine what humanity could do if we used our resources for humanitarian purposes.
Thank you for clarifying, and the link. I’ll check it out!
How you conflate those other things with Luddite is… fascinating.
Does that excuse him from the part he played? Sounds kind of Nuremberg defense to me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
When those we grew up or gave some sort of exaggerated credit, it causes us to not want to believe they could be worse, especially much worse. We automatically look for excuses or reasons it isn’t true. Conversely, when people we just innately dislike do something great that helps society in some way, we automatically look for ulterior motives.
Demonizing and heroizing are both parts of our shadows. We all do it to varying degrees. I scapegoated Monica Lewinsky, back in the day. I grew enough to cringe later, over it, and enough after that to understand and forgive myself, later on. Turns out I can’t really force others to live up to my standards. I fall short of certain standards. I have to step back and honestly reassess my values and standards periodically, adjust myself or standards - often both.
It wasn’t easy for me to accept certain things about certain figures in my own life, including myself. And it’s fine to not rush to the gallows too. At some point, we need to make judgement calls, to protect self and others, from self and others.
Itt: cognitive dissonance
Lol! It’s ollllld but good. Even the sequels.
Yes it is. Dystopian society divided into classes, erudite, dauntless, abnegation, candor, amity.
Did you see the movie, Divergent?
While I largely agree, I also note there will always be greedy outliers who will seek and find ways to skirt the system. We can minimize the ways, but humans are innovative AF, especially when told “you can’t.” I think it’s almost more motivating than “you can.”
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