anthropologists millennia ago discovered that bribery by threat was more effective than bribery by generosity. you keep your soldiers grateful for the pittance you give them, not resentful of the riches you bestow. i think a lot of people don't know how stories are written, especially these days. artists, all artists, painters, writers, musicians, they're all telling stories, usually about their lives. it's why working class bands from the 80s/90s all ended up shit around the same time, you start out, you have stories to tell about experiences you've had, things you've seen, then you're minted, and you stop seeing things so you run out of stories to tell. look at working class artists from yesteryear, they all start out talking about what it's like to live in a shithole, or to see your family destroyed by drugs, or to have nothing in a world of people who have things. then their later work is all like yeah yeah yeah i love money yeah yeah yeah. it's because they were drawing inspiration from their lives to guide the narrative of their music. now if you accept this premise, how do you think people like huxley and orwell got the inspiration for their works on social control?
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