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Originally Posted by raging moderate
EXACTLY
people don't "have time" to care about this type of issue b/c 1) they can't take care of it themselves and 2) because they don't perceive it as affecting their daily lives.
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Raging hit it well.
Take away people's freedom but give them free cable TV and reality TV shows, and they will not notice.
Take their money, and hours out of their lives in taxes, but give some back and make it seem like Free Money, they will feel grateful.
Run a shadow government of insiders, corruption and theft, but tell the people you are just like them, smile and wave, and they feel happy.
This is nothing new, this is how most governments work. This is NOT how the Republic system of the US was supposed to be however.
You may notice an article like that, but trust me, just like in the Matrix. If you mention it or talk about it, the rest of the sleeping people in the Matrix will oust you and your crazy rock-the-boat ideas, so as to preserve the Matrix.
Every society, before its decline, reaches a point of discomfort and turns to bayonets and guillotines. What will it take to make us that uncomfortable?
-massive unemployment (wont happen with more fake money being printed and a never ending unemployment paycheck)
-impossible living costs, food etc (wont happen, gov is subsidizing food prod with the same fake money being overprinted)
-freedoms being lost. What freedoms? All people want is text messaging, internet, TV and shopping. Give them that and they will burn the Bill of Rights when asked.
-Meteor. Happened 65m years ago to Dinosaurs. ok, this one actually IS plausible.