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I wouldn't even call it "mass" delusion. Who really supports it? Surely not inland or eastern states, that are very orthodox, and I doubt it's Indian or Chinese

I wouldn't even call it "mass" delusion. Who really supports it? Surely not inland or eastern states, that are very orthodox, and I doubt it's Indian or Chinese immigrants who have their own and rather sophisticated philosophy (I mean hinduism and such) and I doubt it's high-tech whites who at most politely ignore slurs in their address. This draws a rather depressing picture of our "culture" if I may use this word. The said delusion is really just a policy enforced at the very top, i.e. in places like DoD and WH. Twitter creates an illusion of majority, but I bet that if this majority were to organise a picnic, they would fit on a smallish park.

rglover 6y ago
Mass enough to be influencing major educational institutions, the military, and the media. Twitter is not my point of reference. Jimmy Fallon hosting a nutcase who tells children they're inherently racist is.
- frongpik 6y ago
  Ha, they've flagged the entire post to hide the discussion.
  - 458aperta 6y ago
    see my profile. all flagged. definitely not deliberate at all as my comments weren't even inflammatory or breaking HN rules. Just some old timer users afraid that not everybody is buying into his/her/their narrative.
458aperta 6y ago
Divide & conquer. This is the war that is being waged on America; your minds. Who has the most intimate and proximity in determining what the collective sees? The device in your pocket is how people view the world. Nobody is reading books, nobody is practicing critical thinking anymore. If I was a foreign power I wouldn't go up militarily against the US, that would be disastrous. Instead, I would head to the universities, I would fund the companies that are in close proximity to the consumer of popular media. I would start 20,30,40 years ago and slowly change what the people in your country thinks about their status quo. The top brass doesn't care because they don't see weapons. Underpaid, underappreciated, unscrupulous individuals are easily won over. Again, the decision makers don't see the enemies here. Then one day, the small cuts collectively add up and the wounds begin to rot from within. Once again, nobody raises alarms because they are incentivized or naivete from being #1 for so long. I would go even further by focusing on the existential crisis of the non-majority ethnic groups and exploit it into hating the very country they are in because of isms. Then you go to the other side which is the conservative portion of the majority ruling class and sell them the idea that those people are ungrateful and hostile. Throw technology and fast food equivalent of entertainment that creates a population addicted to the short bursts of serotonin and you just might be witnessing what you are seeing today. Bonus points for dividing the political ruling class by feeding exploitative information true or not that will be weaponized.

rglover 6y ago

Mass enough to be influencing major educational institutions, the military, and the media. Twitter is not my point of reference. Jimmy Fallon hosting a nutcase who tells children they're inherently racist is.

frongpik 6y ago
Ha, they've flagged the entire post to hide the discussion.
- 458aperta 6y ago
  see my profile. all flagged. definitely not deliberate at all as my comments weren't even inflammatory or breaking HN rules. Just some old timer users afraid that not everybody is buying into his/her/their narrative.

458aperta 6y ago

Divide & conquer. This is the war that is being waged on America; your minds. Who has the most intimate and proximity in determining what the collective sees? The device in your pocket is how people view the world. Nobody is reading books, nobody is practicing critical thinking anymore. If I was a foreign power I wouldn't go up militarily against the US, that would be disastrous. Instead, I would head to the universities, I would fund the companies that are in close proximity to the consumer of popular media. I would start 20,30,40 years ago and slowly change what the people in your country thinks about their status quo. The top brass doesn't care because they don't see weapons. Underpaid, underappreciated, unscrupulous individuals are easily won over. Again, the decision makers don't see the enemies here. Then one day, the small cuts collectively add up and the wounds begin to rot from within. Once again, nobody raises alarms because they are incentivized or naivete from being #1 for so long. I would go even further by focusing on the existential crisis of the non-majority ethnic groups and exploit it into hating the very country they are in because of isms. Then you go to the other side which is the conservative portion of the majority ruling class and sell them the idea that those people are ungrateful and hostile. Throw technology and fast food equivalent of entertainment that creates a population addicted to the short bursts of serotonin and you just might be witnessing what you are seeing today. Bonus points for dividing the political ruling class by feeding exploitative information true or not that will be weaponized.