...we're gonna have to re-evaluate old concepts of free speech and democracy.
Everyone's on anti depressants/sleepers/speed, the chuds are blasting testosterone out their ears until they stroke, weed is everywhere and as potent as heroin.
Add the perfect dopamine delivery system, a political internet economy modeled on the addictive technology of vegas slot machines.
It's gonna have an effect on the national psyche.
Is it a partial explanation for Q?
Shout out to the divorced, biker, small business tyrant, dad...caught with test injectables and thc edibles, and guns, after the Capitol. Just the only man for the moment.
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edit: gotta step away for now. will come back to this. Feels like this post was misunderstood, or I just didn't make enough sense. Hope it won't make things awkward when i slide into selected PMs asking for a plug 😀
okay but problem: a lot of the CHUDs have tits, and are not blasting testosterone. so that's clearly not the cause. and back in 1920s italy and 1930s germany theyweren't blasting synthetic testosterone. so maybe don't be so quick to fucking blame drugs?
yes, it is a brave new world, and yes, the media landscape makes 1960s vegas look like kid safe wooden alphabet blocks in comparison, but maybe that's more to blame. no?
maybe a garbage education system in the cartographic shit stain that is the american empire has some culpability?
maybe decades of propoganda have something to do with it, and the southern strategy+"war on drugs" actually worked? do you remember when they were recorded saying the quiet part loud during the initial planning phases? maybe don't let those fuckers off the hook, or scapegoat drugs and the people who use them EXACTLY LIKE THE FUCKING OLIGARCHS LITERALLY SAID THEY WANT YOU TO, OUT FUCKING LOUD.
yes, it's american culture to do drugs about your problems rather than fix shit, even in the drugs used (prozac and shit instead of MDMA LSD and mushrooms) but maybe that's why we have so fucking much addiction rather than the other way around? because addiction is praxis of capitalism?
I literally said that in the OP......Plummeting education levels.
Don't think I made any value judgements, just observations on the side effects.
Highscool completion rates raised from 34.3% in 1950 to 90.1% in 2019. Bachelor's or higher rates raised from 6.2% in 1950 to 36% in 2019.
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I would posit that between 1950/2019 the syllabus and teaching methods have been purged of even the most milquetoast progressive concepts and ideas, the humanities (politics, history, literature) have been made optional and marginalised, and people can graduate college without having taken a module outside their narrow technical training.
Critical thinking is not taught.
Religious schools and colleges are everywhere and what they sell is legitimized.
That's what I mean by plummeting education levels.
didn't see it when I checked back? but my browser is being weird so who knows.
It's in the title.
whoops.
felt a little attacked...ngl ...that capitalization had me up against the wall lol
I mean, blaming drugs and the poeple who do them is exactly what the oligarchs want you to do. it's part of the strategy of occluding the underlying problems.
Who provides the testosterone, opiods and the rest, if not the oligarchs? Again, no blame or value judgements I hope, just observations. I can't be throwing stones in this greenhouse.
they provide them so that we blame the people who do them for the problems caused by the oligarchs. it's the crafting of scapegoats.