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The Kool-Aid hair -- that and the metal bone in the nose... a lovely combination that shouts "Lunatic On Board!"
The preponderance of external displays -- skin graffiti, cobalt hair, bones in the nose, dressed like clowns ... all a superficial effort to purchase status. These louts are unwilling to work for it, so they just slap it on like a coat of shabby paint and then expect to be taken seriously.
Woke and communism as well. I have often argued that religion's failure (and it is failing) due to dogma and lack of logical, philosophical merit, is a reason people are going Woke, climate-Nazi's, et al.
Many people want to be told the right answer my charismatic and/or people they trust. It is WAY easier than figuring out what is right on one's own. Most people want to be told what to believe.
Woke and communism as well. I have often argued that religion's failure (and it is failing) due to dogma and lack of logical, philosophical merit, is a reason people are going Woke, climate-Nazi's, et al.
Many people want to be told the right answer my charismatic and/or people they trust. It is WAY easier than figuring out what is right on one's own. Most people want to be told what to believe.
Religion has nothing to do with freedom. We have nothing to gain from it, and everything to lose from it.
Socialist systems can be made to appear to work as long as there is a strong capitalist base to support them. The support is through government thievery, of course.
And then the Margaret Thatcher observation: Socialism may work until it runs out of other people's money.
If they are successful, we'll all leave these digital spaces until we figure out how to mask ourselves via AI so that they'll never know who we are . . .
Should the nightmare of a Communist Utopia ever take hold here, our comrade masters would surely be opening reeducation camps and/or practicing final solutions for nonconformists the Soviet Union used to call "refuseniks."