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Casey's avatar

Excellent work, again. I was thinking recently about the removal of a statue of Lee in Virginia recently, in the context of Mao's Cultural Revolution, which had as one of its slogans, "Smash the Four Olds." Wipe out history rather than put it in some context. Mao used the Red Guards to reestablish political dominance that he was losing. Not sure what the goal of the people behind the US Cultural Revolution is. Rather, their goal is clear, but it continues to recede and slip away while the society embarks full force into reverse situational awareness. Learned helplessness seems to be part of the ritual in use. I've heard it called Revelation of the Method. You tell the people how you are going to screw them over, then you dare them to stop you screwing them over, then, once you've screwed them over, you point out, once again, how it is pointless to try to stop being screwed over, and then arrive at learned helplessness. No point in resisting if you are helpless, better to go along with being screwed over as it may make the screwing less painful. We are right at the end of the Empire and it takes some massive divorce from reality and causality to keep the wheels on this bus as it careens down the hill.

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TexBat's avatar

Well said. Have more unvaccinated children and homeschool them

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