Because you now did it to yourself.

  • 4lan@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I’m half way through this book “demon haunted world” It’s wild how history repeats itself and people cling to ‘magic’ when life gets hard

    Everyone is charging their crystals or praying to Jesus to feel like they are in control. People are losing grasp of reality on purpose

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      5 days ago

      Yup. A big issue is the system has been rigged against us for so long. Wages haven’t increased as rent, houses, groceries, transportation, education and everything else have gone up in price. So as Sagan said, people want to “feel good” by believing a “down to earth guy” who isn’t formal, doesn’t look like the establishment will fix it.

      Trump and his cronies have made themselves out to be the good guys, that will tear down the systems that are causing hardship, when they are the exact elites that has built this system and want to further it. Fascism works best with an unseen and/or misdirected enemy and uneducated population, and it’s clear. It’s the gays/independent women/migrants/minorities. It’s those who are “different.”

      They’re part of that unseen enemy that keeps making things worse. And for the idiots it feels good for them to drink beers together and complain about grocery store prices and say “fuck Biden.” Instead of “have you guys seen congressional proposals to limit increases to grocery prices?”