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TR's avatar

One thing I have noticed - among my liberal, upper-middle class friends (doctors, lawyers etc) - is the complete inability to understand or perceive unofficial systems of power or cooperation. In their view, for a system to be recognised as working toward a common goal, there has to have a concrete and contractual link between all parties. I dont know if this is willfull ignorance or just naivety, but it increasingly comes across as child like.

In their view, suggesting anything else is OBVIOUSLY a nazi-adjacent conspiracy.

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Eli Squires's avatar

Thank you for articulating how this system works and providing the background to support. It seems very much like the church/heretic system of centuries past. The church didn't have (in most cases) explicit authority over people, but owned the party/cultural space and had the power to set the agenda. The difference now is that we have technology to expand this party seamlessly across the world. Pretty soon the AI algorithms will have control of all social media space, and will weed out any heretical views. There's a reason why 1984 had a uniquely depressing ending.

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