The bad news: The most evil people in the world spend billions every year on the largest propaganda machine in the history of man, and it enthralls a large minority of us.
The good news: That’s what it takes to maintain this! This many people living in a bubble of unreality is not natural! It is the product of a machine built by man, and all machines built by man are destined to eventually fail. Maybe the right person dies at the right time. Maybe the conflict between their narrative and reality eventually becomes too much. Maybe they lose control of the story and the movement splinters into hundreds of contradictory conspiracy theories that no longer move in lockstep. Maybe the magic just wears off one day.
all machines built by man are destined to eventually fail
Every fascist regime in the world has fallen or is in the process of falling. It’s not a matter of “if,” but of “when.”
When it falls we need to figuratively topple their statues. Rename their libraries and airports and make their names on buildings and in laws illegal.
Move all of their actual statues into museums where they can live next to images of their injustices and retributions for all eternity. Rename their libraries and airports after those who died opposing them. Salt the ground from which their authoritarianism sprouted.
But don’t take too long otherwise people will forget and will fall prey to new fascist propaganda alleging that you’re “censoring free speech” or “rewriting history”.
Obviously that doesn’t mean that the next 4+ years are going to be particularly pleasant for the people who live here, of course.
You’re right and that’s another reason why economic equality is important.
It depends on the context.
In the context of our current government, it doesn’t seem likely that its hopeless. The fascists are so laughably incompetent that what they are doing is unsustainable even in the short term.
When it comes to certain other things, like my personal perception of the average American following this election, it indeed is hopeless. There is almost nothing that I could fathom that could make me fully sympathetic to the average American again.
Great artistic vision with this pic. Totally dig it
Do the Impossible
See the invisible
Row! Row!
Fight the powa!Touch the untouchable
Break the unbreakable
Row! Row!
Fight the powa!LET ME SEE YOU GRIT THOSE TEETH!
Nice sentiment but the propaganda isn’t for us, and it’s working
