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2022-09-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-25 08:24|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Mob Rule

#1 Starts with the premise that QAnon is a ridiculous conspiracy fantasy.

Which may be, but like 1984 (the novel) more and more of the fantasy seems to become fact.

Posted by Bobby 2022-09-25 11:15|| 2022-09-25 11:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Hasn't it always been that way for everybody? Except for Luddites and bums? It's a ride you can't get off of. We're born to dominate, we spend the better part of our innocence learning the rules. And once you know the rules, there's no throwing you into gears is there? You're your own little republic. Only the ones who never learn the rules are caught out unawares whining 'waaaah this wasn't supposed to happen!'

Incentive based slavery and gamification creeped in after systems theory and behaviourism got married and produced the creed that tries to turn people into easily controlled and predictable quantities. From religion to education and the modern factory it permeated into everything. Until there was a neat and tidy process even for impressing Gawd!

Societies and communities which retained some of their rough libertarian edges as part of essential laws, religious rights, whatever, they saved themselves from total systematisation. And because they remained 'immune' to control while 'good citizens and workers, churchgoers and boy scouts' all grew increasingly servile and trusting of the machine.

That is just my observation.

It is free radicals like us who get to push. Of course there's a limit to how much we can push. And a great clash is approaching. We shall even be forced to pick sides with lesser evils.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-25 12:52|| 2022-09-25 12:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I think whatever the writer wanted to say devolved into a rant against things like Qanon and conspiracy theories. Sure, there's no all omnipotent, omniscient cabal out there.

But Christians know there's something worse, and like Hy Spirit, it too has vessels and a cause and a kingdom to serve. It is organised, efficient, armed, beautiful to look at, appealing in a self-righteous way. It is the man of sin, who sits in the throne of God, wants to be worshipped as God.

Those who don't believe are not ready for anything.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-25 13:01|| 2022-09-25 13:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Hasn't it always been that way for everybody? Except for Luddites and bums? It's a ride you can't get off of. We're born to dominate, we spend the better part of our innocence learning the rules. And once you know the rules, there's no throwing you into gears is there? You're your own little republic. Only the ones who never learn the rules are caught out unawares whining 'waaaah this wasn't supposed to happen!'

All true. However, upon occasion, one finds for reasons of conscience that he has to throw caution to the wind, hoist the jolly roger, and accept an inevitable death at sea.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-09-25 14:59|| 2022-09-25 14:59|| Front Page Top

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