Something for all to consider

Everyone really should spend a few minutes and watch this. Some Americans will be offended. I officially dont care.. A few will recognise themselves.. Most wont even watch to the end.
I think the non Americans will see a lot more in it they recognise..😷
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Graylight · 51-55, F

Huxley didn't promote many ideas that weren't already well in play centuries earlier. Ancient Rome used their games to keep the population sated so as not to stage uprisings.

This is a warning of what's possible. I don't find it as shadowy and conspiratorial as being plied with different opiates for the masses. We are a lazy species. And we fill time. If it's not spent surviving, it'll be spent another way. It may seem worse in America because, as the bastion of unchecked capitalism, we actively seek things to consume and fill empty holes. Just this morning the flyer for a city-wide Pride event highlighted the gathering with mentioning how many, many vendors there will be. Unfettered consumption.

But it's not because the government is raining down empty riches on us; it's because it's there.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Graylight I might agree if it werent for the total abrogation of the governments responsibility to manange the economy. With a foreign debt of over thirty Trillion Dollars and no clear program to show for it this rampant consumerism without a purpose is beyond negligent. Less was spent on the Marshall Plan to rebuild Germany and Japan. I repeat that I dont see a conspiracy here.. What I do see it Capitalism without a bridle to direct it. Thats the goverments job and it hasnt been done since Vietnam..😷

Graylight · 51-55, F

@whowasthatmaskedman The government isn't doing it's job because it's absolutely splintered. No longer is it about differing approaches to common problems. It's about blocking the other side and declaring victory just to the sound of the word.

No government can function like this. The US loves to believe it's absolutely and utterly invincible, but we'd do well to remember we're infants in the collective world tribe. We can fail and we can do so horribly. There are good ideas out there, but they're lone voices deep in the forest, the kind that goes unheard behind the din of a traveling circus.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Graylight I think we broadly agree. But I do the government representatives as having be intentionally been bought out by the Corporate sector, who only look to the next Balance sheet. And thats no way to run a nation. Those same corporates sell Status in material goods, be it fashion, or game consoles. America is going nowhere, because no one has goals with meaning.😷