mhrm, am i still feuding with the same person?   > maybe i'm wrong, i just feel you may be too optimistic.  i've acknowledged that myself, the krautanon has been helping along with that. > people don't need to understand anything they just need to feel like someone knows what they're saying and doing.  that's a very curious statement. isn't it in the interest of everyone, for the greatest number of people to know as much as they are able to learn? want and need are not the same. > if you say dumb things with confidence people will believe it and buy into it and feel it. this is fucked but very true.  that's an unfortunate truth, confidence radiates authority. > i think it's fine to sell and advertise these things, it's a current necessity even. i disagree with that. the longer you sell and advertise it, the greater the necessity to keep the scheme going. > it takes a very long time... i've changed people's views on some very deep things religion (and atheism) included and it took time to get them to see and even then you can only give someone a shovel and tell them to dig. good things take effort and time, yes. > people hate change, people can barely handle when a coffee place they liked moves to a new location and you want them to accept their worldview totally shifting.  i am under no illusion whatsoever in that regard. i am aware that, if this change is possible, it will be a very difficult and potentially quite painful experience for many. as it stands mankind is staring down perpetual stagnation. the technological progress is counteracted by social and cultural regression. the system is basically being held together by malfunctions. different parts are breaking each and every day, and they get wedged inbetween loadbearing parts, in just the right way to prevent a complete collapse.  (cont.)
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