So many, many people I thought I knew have dashed their masks to the ground over the last decade.
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So many, many people I thought I knew have dashed their masks to the ground over the last decade.
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So many, many people I thought I knew have dashed their masks to the ground over the last decade.
@Soozcat yeah, that punch lands. Makes me think I need to find time to rewatch the Twilight Zone episodes I blithely snoozed through as a kid.
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So many, many people I thought I knew have dashed their masks to the ground over the last decade.
@Soozcat That and "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"...
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices ... to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own ... for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined only to The Twilight Zone."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street
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So many, many people I thought I knew have dashed their masks to the ground over the last decade.
@Soozcat I suspected I might like Serling's "speechifying" snippet at the end more than the creator's own… I did.
https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-twilight-zone-1959&episode=s03e03I don't dispute the creator's points, at all. Nor that crisis brings out people's real natures. But I don't believe the ugly sides were always there just waiting—imo, they've been carefully husbandried by billionaire media until inner vermin grew to inner monsters, making us easy to divide and conquer (by the same folks who fomented the crisis).
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@Soozcat I suspected I might like Serling's "speechifying" snippet at the end more than the creator's own… I did.
https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-twilight-zone-1959&episode=s03e03I don't dispute the creator's points, at all. Nor that crisis brings out people's real natures. But I don't believe the ugly sides were always there just waiting—imo, they've been carefully husbandried by billionaire media until inner vermin grew to inner monsters, making us easy to divide and conquer (by the same folks who fomented the crisis).
@Soozcat For anyone who's willing to put down the toxic-waste Monster Chow
they've been gorging on, I think redemption is not only possible but ~very~ realistic. At least among the 99%, I think only a very small minority are truly so far gone they won't come back no matter what. 
We all have vermin inside of us. But we become what we feed inside of ourselves… or though it may take years, we can leave behind what we stop feeding.
(Or at least shrink it until a good stomp does the trick.)
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@Soozcat For anyone who's willing to put down the toxic-waste Monster Chow
they've been gorging on, I think redemption is not only possible but ~very~ realistic. At least among the 99%, I think only a very small minority are truly so far gone they won't come back no matter what. We all have vermin inside of us. But we become what we feed inside of ourselves… or though it may take years, we can leave behind what we stop feeding.
(Or at least shrink it until a good stomp does the trick.)
@MySideIsHumanity I hope you're right. But I also see things like people, in the middle of a war, making videos about buying viral squishies in blind boxes. The Epstein class is treating us like infants, jingling the shiny keys to distract us from whatever fresh hell they're perpetrating this week.
"Blind" boxes are almost too much on the nose.
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@MySideIsHumanity I hope you're right. But I also see things like people, in the middle of a war, making videos about buying viral squishies in blind boxes. The Epstein class is treating us like infants, jingling the shiny keys to distract us from whatever fresh hell they're perpetrating this week.
"Blind" boxes are almost too much on the nose.
@Soozcat I hope I'm right too, but I'm not sure. I very well may be relying too much on history completing another circle, back to the solidarity born out of the days of The Jungle, instead of spiraling down a la the Roman Republic.
(Not to mention it may be self-serving bias to believe that almost everyone is capable of redemption. A big part of how I try to shape my life nowadays, is due to desiring very much to be better than the person I've been.)
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@Soozcat I hope I'm right too, but I'm not sure. I very well may be relying too much on history completing another circle, back to the solidarity born out of the days of The Jungle, instead of spiraling down a la the Roman Republic.
(Not to mention it may be self-serving bias to believe that almost everyone is capable of redemption. A big part of how I try to shape my life nowadays, is due to desiring very much to be better than the person I've been.)
@MySideIsHumanity I believe almost anyone is capable of redemption, but that first requires the ability to recognize where one is (as opposed to where one wanted to be), and to course correct based on the best available data. I hope the majority of people out there who voted to "make America great" are recognizing that this is not greatness. It's certainly not goodness.
It's hard to admit when you're wrong. It's harder to admit you've been wrong for 150 miles of bad road.
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