How We Doin' with hate and fear?

[mnaz]

How we doin' hatin' the
brown people and leftists
and gay and non-gay people,
five star generals and privates,
and capitalism and communism
or socialism or fascism or war or
lack of war or other false binaries, I
hate them all, but as Hunter S said,
they were necessary as the War On
Drugs and Everything Else escalated,
lest Drugs and Everything Else gain
contol; it's all about Control!

[saw]

very true
the manipulation is non stop
the news, the advertising
it'a ALL about selling fear
big pharma peddles terrible things that could happen to you
if you don't buy Fucksatasin....or some other bullshit drug name
where death....is actually listed as a possible side effect,

[mnaz]

Yes, and watching all the oversimplified, over-amplified, over-militarized, over-marketed and over-politicized Dualities of the last several decades and centuries (death, life, choose one or the other NOW) one must always come back to (what seems to be) the basic premise... of CONTROL-- it's gotta be One or the Other CONTROLLING things, Left or Right or Something, and slash-and-burn politics will eventually declare a final winner, and Everything will be Great Again...

It was never One or The Other. It was always somewhere between.

[gypsyjoker]

Orwell was prescient, but you knew that. His technology is more elegant these days. China's big brother is the wave of the future, a system of government control by the use of Artificial Intelligence.

[mnaz]

Truck, seems you're always several steps ahead of me. A.I. is mystifying to me...