We like watching America's Got Talent and big talents shows like that ....
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I can only consume so much bad news before I go binge watch something funny or a show where good triumphs over evil.
It might be learned helplessness, but right now there don't seem to be a lot of things normal citizens can do. Crazy people took over, and all the protesting and pleading in the world won't prevent them from doing what they want to do.
My guess is the protests will be escalated by the administration. Maybe they'll toss in a few paid agitators. A cop or ice agent gets shot. Trump makes a rambling speech about law and order. Declares martial law and becomes a real dictator.
The protests have been largely cool so far and it is obvious that is not what he is looking for.Anyways yeah, sorry I'm going to watch some TV and dissociate.
I'm fairly certain this is the plan, but he's going to wait to pull out his martial law card for when they need to suspend elections. I 100% expect to see some fuckery in '28. I'm guessing that's when the war will begin.
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We like watching America's Got Talent and big talents shows like that .... recently I just began to realize ...
Historians will be noting how we were all wrapped up in these big talent shows and feel good programs while the entire political landscape just slowly slid into WWIII without anyone really paying attention.
We are paying attention but we all feel like there's nothing we can do to stop it so we try to numb the pain.
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TOS s2e25 "Bread and Circuses"
One of my biggest peeves, things that end before
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We are paying attention but we all feel like there's nothing we can do to stop it so we try to numb the pain.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah, watched Adam Curtis' 'Hypernormalisation' dokumentation and was like, oh that's why I feel like this. Goes to show, the sleep of reason produces monsters.
Anyways completely unrelated to this, I'm limiting my social media intake and am now looking to unionize my workplace lol.
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Yeah, watched Adam Curtis' 'Hypernormalisation' dokumentation and was like, oh that's why I feel like this. Goes to show, the sleep of reason produces monsters.
Anyways completely unrelated to this, I'm limiting my social media intake and am now looking to unionize my workplace lol.
I watched that a couple of years ago and it was a definite realization of the world we live in and how it got this way. One of the most necessary documentaries that everyone should watch.
Move your social media use to places like Mastodon and get your new union members to talk there. You will find plenty of union minded people there once you start exploring the communities everywhere. Mastodon is still so new that not many company minded people go there ... those same corporate people instead go to the big private social media sites instead and don't even think that there is any alternative.
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I can only consume so much bad news before I go binge watch something funny or a show where good triumphs over evil.
It might be learned helplessness, but right now there don't seem to be a lot of things normal citizens can do. Crazy people took over, and all the protesting and pleading in the world won't prevent them from doing what they want to do.
My guess is the protests will be escalated by the administration. Maybe they'll toss in a few paid agitators. A cop or ice agent gets shot. Trump makes a rambling speech about law and order. Declares martial law and becomes a real dictator.
The protests have been largely cool so far and it is obvious that is not what he is looking for.Anyways yeah, sorry I'm going to watch some TV and dissociate.
I hate to say it but on many nights and evenings .... I feel and do the same.
I'm older, my wife is chronically sick, we can't leave house and I spend most of my days reading and watching how the world is falling apart and there is not much I do about it all.
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TOS s2e25 "Bread and Circuses"
'Panem et circenses' .... a phrase that's been used, suggested, implied and actually played out for hundreds of years in society.
Also never noticed how built Bones was until I saw that jiggly bicep.
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You make an interesting point. If I flip it around. WWI and II both began in a mostly pre-television world. I guess you could say televison has brought safety?
I think it's worse ... much much worse.
A hundred to two hundred years ago, it was hard to control people and entertain them enmasse ... the best way they knew how was through violence .... yet WWI and WWII happened anyway.
Now we have a million ways to entertain and distract people but at the same time a million ways and reasons to start WWIII
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We are paying attention but we all feel like there's nothing we can do to stop it so we try to numb the pain.
America was created by violence any change that ever occurs has occurred through conflict. You don't ask a bully to stop
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We are paying attention but we all feel like there's nothing we can do to stop it so we try to numb the pain.
Dear future historians: You wil look back in horror but know that we feel helpless. The only parallel we have ended in a world war that had to be ended by a newly arisen superpower. And that scares the shit out of us.
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We like watching America's Got Talent and big talents shows like that .... recently I just began to realize ...
Historians will be noting how we were all wrapped up in these big talent shows and feel good programs while the entire political landscape just slowly slid into WWIII without anyone really paying attention.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Not totally accurate, there's a huge group of people actively cheering all this on. Read opinion polls on this stuff, and the approval rate is surprisingly high.
Much of American seems to think we've elected Tony Stark Warren Buffett Jesus to save us from what seems so grim, and there's a massive machine making money off that fantasy, perpetuating it. It's what opposition doesn't seem to understand, and a big differentiator vs old dictators.
I think that's what historians will see. Not that most were apathetic. Many really care, but reality warped around us.
