niktemadur @ niktemadur @lemmy.world

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The long-term goal was to make and keep people as dumb and ignorant as possible. What a parasite.

Maybe he ate some poisoned Princeton cafeteria food that was meant for Kurt Gödel.

instead we studied useful things

Have you ever seen any British television quiz game shows? The amount of world geography and history most contestants seem to know is abismal, makes me scratch my head and seriously wonder what many of these people are doing there, in a game show about knowledge. What are they even doing there, in the delusion that they have a shot.

"What is the capital of Denmark?"
"Erm... pass."

This person's comment is just another drop in the bucket in the sorry state of things.

I egg
therefore
I nog

The right side looks an awful lot like Mad Men.

I don't know, man, it's always annoying whenever these subjects come up, and the capitalist goblin pulling levers behind a curtain is invoked.

It is the very people themselves who are scared shitless of anything that actually works this powerfully.
It's either complex evil above or cowardly, lazy ignorance horizontally around you. Which is Occam's Razor?

"We foresee that this substance might liberate the population's minds and threaten us robber barons!" sounds too tidy a narrative, and it is attractive, as it puts blame squarely on the shoulders of The Other. It is, however, as flat and simple and false as "both parties are the same".

Do you know why capitalism is so powerful? Because it gives us what we want. And we suck. There's no hidden pure angel inside of us waiting to be freed fully formed if they just leave us alone, there's a lot of inner work to be done, and we suck at it, we don't wanna do it. We are also a myopic species.

"Do it for the shrooms"...

...some time later

"I'm doing shrooms for charity!"

Yeah, I was just playing with words, and the fact that modern boxing is based on the 19th century Queensberry style and rules.

I blame Percival Lowell for this. And his minion, Clyde Tombaugh.

Then they yanked Pluto from planetary existence, to cover their tracks!

Engage once, to never engage again with that particular clickbait tripe channel.

Queensberry rules?

wAs EiNsTEiN wRoNg?
wAiT TiLL tHe EnD tO FiNd OuT!
tHe AnSWeR WiLL SHOCK YoU!

Yeah... unliked and blocked, moving on.

Steep hills right by the ocean definitely do tell a clear story, don't they? Just the sort of place where air smacks into an unmovable object and creates swirls.

What a hero! Praze the lord we're winning the War On Drugs™️!

Exhibit Nth in a dumptruck full of evidence for why these creatures are perceived as mindless cogs in a mindlessly medieval machinery that does nothing useful.

Exhibit Nth in the case for why the police force are a decayed perversion of what they originally promised to set out to do, infected by decades of politics of willful ignorance and inflexible dumb intolerance.

"Socrates is a man..."
"Did you just assume his gender?"

Hashtag και εγω / Ἑλλάς / εγω💖φιλοσοφία / WokeRepublic

K.M. - King Martin
A.M.T. - Automated Money Teller
M.K. - Martin King
J.B. - James Brown!!!
J.B.A. - James Brown & Associates
D.H. - Lawrence?

Facing a cosmos filled with infinite information, this little guy knows just about as much as any science professor - near zero.

People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along
So awfully

Those lyrics - among many others - are aimed directly at the sort of intolerant scumbags that always seem to be festering in the right wing toilet of society, just as relevant today as it was in 1984 when the Some Great Reward album was released.

If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.

There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use... say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.

My second choice, for shits 'n' giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!

"Contract management", I think it's called.
You hire the services of one factory or laboratory to do your manufacture and packaging, another company for distribution and marketing, another for accounting, etc. You can build a good-sized company with one employee: You, the owner.