(03-17-2026, 04:03 PM)andy06shake Wrote: If there is a plan, or rhyme and reason to all this, Max.
It just makes it even more terrifying...
I guess that's essentially the notion that I telegraph (not so well.)
Everyday, I see people applying reason to "the advertised world of business and politics" and coming up with only memes and often well-placed mockery.
I mean, can a reasonable person actually say that this "theater" of reality fully-crafted by government, or cabals, or pirate barons clearly has no place in reality... It is being foisted upon us as some manner of offering. And that troubles me... because it means ... the spectators they expect us to be are supposed to simply watch (gripe if you must) ... and that is the end of that. (anything outside of that is dangerous)
And society allows us to "be OK with that." At least it does now.
I find that kind of scary.
I know I can't trust any report containing the form of "somebody said something." If you strike that from the current 'global' news cycle.... there is hardly ever any news that is truly "open to see."
They only investigate where a sponsor will pay them to. They only report what the sponsor will pay for.
That's not news... that's mostly mind-bending bullshit...
[In regards to how Europeans often speak of "Americans."
(That poison comes from the one-note narrative you have been exposed to for generations...)
Most nation-minded individuals choose not to ever express that...
Americans are just people, as we all are...
scientifically no more or less than "Russians, Romanians, Chinese, Uyghurs, Laotian, Iranians and Irish" or any 'flavor' you must cling to for meaning...
but to continually engage in populist rhetoric, encouraging a disparaging attitude about Americans...
speaks to maybe how we might actually live on a different register...
(Continuous mockery
breeds contempt, most literally... monkey see, monkey do.)
However, freedom of expression allows me to say such a thing...
whereas the proper response might have been a good ol' American: "Says you!"
Except to call it out ... it must be admitted up front...
Americans are so much like everyone else... they have the same exact bad habits consuming 'produced' media.
(or maybe that's related to "what
we're "told" as well?")
(Born verbose...)