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The greatest enemy we have is mass cynicism. When people get to the point when they think nothing can be done. What choices must we make?
It's easy when people are fearful and disorganized, feeling separate so we can be vulnerable to demagogues who will say it's because of government, it's because of immigrants, because of blacks, when in actuality we are all struggling over a smaller and smaller share of a bigger AND BIGGER pie.
Our attention is being deflected and diverted from the big story that all the income is going to the top. When do people cross that threshold to take action, speak up, vote, make their voices heard?
Over the last 30 years the erosion of the middle class has been relentless, union busting, healthcare access and costs, education costs, job off-shoring, taxing inequality and of course sending our youth to die in wars supporting large corporations like Exxon and Halliburton.
Adriaan Braam 20+
Find someone that is worse off than you and help.
Random Chance 30+
It is brainwashing.
The main effect of brainwashing is a dulled ability to reason.
The second effect of brainwashing is an impeded ability to act or take action.
As a result of this embedding of lies within the individual and collective psyche, people (Americans), worship lies over the truth.
The world's leading evolutionary biologist, Robert Trivers, discovered that humans hold both truth and false simultaneously but was surprised when he discovered the false is held in our conscious mind and the truth held in our un-conscious mind.
This sets up conflicting and tumultuous inner dialog and makes it much harder to discern, hear, identify and certainly to believe, the truth.
People have to wake up first and turn off the messages constantly poured into their consciousness on a daily basis. To believe what even one politician says, is to prove ones' serious degree of mental instability and illness.
When the deception is discovered, the deceiver is usually attacked and they don't want this.
They have continually told the masses that knowing the truth would cause too much fear and anxiety and that is not true. It would create great anger, just what the people need to break out of the brainwashed, induced slumber they stumble around in.
You have an unjust system. You cannot make it just. You have to get rid of it and create a new, just system.
Simple really. Just Do It.
James Kindler 20+
pat gilbert 50+
Ed Schulte 50+
That is actually “Apathy” your are referring to .....yes/no?
which has an LOC of less the 5 (iow Very near death as non existence)…..Cynicism is above apathy in Level Of Consciousness because it is an action ….negative perhaps BUT one has to consider the situation causing the action before determining whether it is positive or negative "Relative" action.
By the Bye ...when you say "we" and "our" I assume you mean American.....and not trying to be cynical here