luka
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I include myself in the seduced
Fair enough. I just don't want to trot out the usual cliches if we can avoid it.
I include myself in the seduced
Id be more interested to see people try and think through the reasons it has power over them, rather than say stupid people are stupid and therefore believe stupid things.
Believe it or not, I really like patty and thing he's a decent guy. I enjoy reading about his adventures as a wandering psychedelic bohemian, I like the music he makes, much of which he was good enough to send to me, and I think his instincts are basically benign. That's why it pains me to see him getting sucked down this awful alt-right rabbit-hole of insane racist paranoia.
If someone I knew well in real life told me in all seriousness that they thought anything Alex Jones or David Icke had to say was worth listening to, I would be genuinely concerned for their mental health.
They're not. And there are also origin points for particular foundation myths. Niburu. Ancient Astronauts. Kill King 33. The Octopus. Trance formation of America. Behold a Pale Horse. The Reptilians.
Fair enough. I just don't want to trot out the usual cliches if we can avoid it.
Admittedly I haven't read the whole thread, apologies. Are you the resident shaman?
But, having said that, one of the fascinating things about this stuff is that these ideas become common property, riffed on, developed, made to fit in with other dark dreamings.
You haven't got an overriding concern with fetishisation of either original ideas or intellectual property, because, I suppose, these are not presented as fictions