Henry was clever and sneaky in his malice, like today's Thiel. The cheeto guy though pulls all the levers but dodges shit like he had 10 LUCK or something.
What it costed Israel to make you do it and also announce it? A promised land of gazan golf courses or another Trump Tower there? I can't get how he is still breathing with everything that he did in his life.
I can waste all day naming USSR wrongdoings, but at the beginning their leaders had a medieval country that was ages before it's peers in any sense, thanks it's monarchs, and while some of them were shooting Machno guys, exiling intellectuals and creating proto-ICE from poverty commitees, I can not deny their literacy and infrastructure powermoves. If monarchy lasted up until now, I doubt we'd have an accessible school and electricity provider in every god-forgotten place. I could've also mentioned healthcare, but the little fuck and his co-leeches toned it down in the last ten years.
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Basically, a surface level of knowledge is just shadows on the cave's wall that could be projected by someone interested in fooling you. Unless you question the nature of things, you'd not leave a cave, and won't probably even question your perception. Just like Morpheus, his pills and references to going down the rabbit hole like Alice did.
Thinking about that now, it's one of the most long-running and popular media-things concerning 'deep state' fears before 2016. And while The X-Files ended, and for someone like me ended too late, one that toppled it is still running around on coke and hamberders having the most unpenetrateable fanbase ever. Why it's not Firefly but Taco having a second season?
Audible have a great audiobook collection on them. I really liked how all characters sounded in them. If you are to sail the seas, I can PM you a link.
It's a rare pleasure to see another soul who knows about them (:
Or Mulder is a subj of MK Ultra 2.0, and he naturally can not believe the only real conspiracy is him being drugged and exposed to fake leads and evidence. His father, the originator of that program, thought they've created a batch of people immune to mind control and mind altering through procedures his son doesn't remember well. Skully learns and exposes the scheme to him and he turns on her and other people thinking he's the insane one while only he know The Truth. Plot narrowly misses a point, where out-of-mind federal cop with access to weapons, data and training could do what USA is sadly famous for.
As a childless asocial workaholic with some degree of toxicity that LinkedIn bastard probably dream of, my performance heavily depended on the importance of the task. WFH let me be more passionate about some projects and papers that I used all benefits of cutting commute, was way less distracted and motivated. But bullshit paperwork, letters, chats and reports lagged even further behind than they did in the office, right up to the deadline. Sometimes because I did the work itself instead and no one looked over my shoulder.
For me RTOing into a nearly-empty building in the off-season when most take vacations was the most dumb idea, and since it was a typical rule-for-thee, I had almost none supervison, was arriving late, leaving early and put a shit ton of hours into various MMOs. The complete opposite to what I did in a brief moments of quarantine. Look, jerks, you paid me to level my chars, that's what you wanted?
I think like in a trust-based environment clocking in is unnecessary and various bosses over time did get it, I payed back by reporting stuff myself so they were sure I'm on it at any given time. Like we are actually a team of some sort, they do their stuff, I do mine, we pass things to each other etc. The others were completely disconnected from empoyees and to compensate their inability to trust, got high on controlling shit, were sending down teamworking events, talking about being a family or other sectarian career manager bullshit, relied on and encouraged snitching on each other. These were the positions I nailed down to me clocking out and stop giving a fuck, before eventually leaving.
And for coworkers: they either do their work, or leave it to others, and I rarely GAF about other characteristics. The high stress environment of labor is not where I prefer to socialise, nor I'm in the mood to. I crave work-related communications that makes all objectives clear and obvious, work-related stories I can learn from, you know, the stuff I came here for, and not a social club with gossips, drama and all that. If I'm given 2hrs+ from not riding to your building, I can have two socializations and a half if I want to. The exhaustion it causes not helps but prevents me from going out with friends, and I'm double pissed that some bosses make an act like that's better for their workers while not giving them any agency and doing it solely for themselves.
When USA government took a wind of their future involvement in this war, they found that adoring fans of Hitler aren't what you'd like to gain popularity at home while sending boys to Europe to catch the fucker. I don't know the morals of politicians who took steps to tone down the Hitler-fandom, but the first layer of this onion is that - it was against the geological goals of the US - to enable that strain of nazism - at the time. Were they allowing the same populist mythology about the US to prevail, did american soldiers thought themselves superior to others, with their democracy, founding fathers, ammendments? Probably. But the original sin was erased in a public memory as the Axis-ov-Evil felt, the Cold War started and the US, especially, saw a boom in it's prosperity.
But to counter your pov, I'd argue, there aren't particular 'people like that', but social conditions of frustrated masses gullible enough to follow populists adressing their emotions, establishing their past as great and promising the return to that. These notions are just copycats of one another. The healthier the society the less we see the monsters constructed and enabled by it's failures. There was some quote of Stephen (I created but abandoned my bluesky) King that in order to kill you'd need to have a bullet in your heart, and I believe that most deranged shooters who went on a probably suicidal killing spree against their own kind didn't have that bullet initially, but they've been conditioned by the times like late Wheimar Republic, late Soviet state, and, probably, late America, if it won't get of these rails.
Henry was clever and sneaky in his malice, like today's Thiel. The cheeto guy though pulls all the levers but dodges shit like he had 10 LUCK or something.