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The article is designed superbly. The story itself though… not much I can say without going on a rant that will get me flagged for language. I have reached a
by skilled 3y ago
The article is designed superbly.
The story itself though… not much I can say without going on a rant that will get me flagged for language.
I have reached a point where this crap isn’t even interesting to me anymore. Yet again the elite is given some kind of special treatment and the real problems of the world get buried in ruble… yay… can’t wait for the next story highlighting the same exact thing.
And then the next… and nothing a mere mortal can do because the elite doesn’t play by the rules of the commoner.
- altacc 3y agoI know exactly what you mean but also that normalisation of despair and acceptance of the futility of action is part of the PR machine of those who wish to do whatever they want. Resisting that seems to be the right thing to do but also seems futile. I see this with climate discussions, where there's long been climate doomism but there now seems to be a tactic of moving people from the denial to doom camps, skipping the stage where people think prevention or reduction of the underlying mechanism is possible, because both denial and doomism allow people to keep on doing whatever they want.
- bluefishinit 3y agoI think a counterpoint to this is the growing number of strikes and general labor organization. I think a lot of people feel your frustration and those in the working classes have reached their breaking points and have started to take action. Stories like this are demoralizing but they're reality and I think collectively, the non-rich have had enough.
- ycombinete 3y ago> I have reached a point where this crap isn’t even interesting to me anymore. Adam Curtis covers this effect wonderfully in his film Hypernormalisation: https://archive.org/details/HyperNormalisation https://archive.org/details/HyperNormalisation