More likely they put $20 million into a slush fund and just said it was for investigating UFOs because it was funny and might serve a social conditioning purpose. Certainly everyone seems a bit distracted by this story.
There is a difference between believing in the free market as a concept and believing that the western economy is a free market. It is not. It's a corporate welfare state. The government is identical with publicly traded companies and it does micromanage the economy. What is the Federal Reserve Bank? We have been invaded and the vast majority of people who have stood up against the invaders since the Civil War (English or American, either is applicable) have been demonized and everyone who falls for the narratives has their rational mind and their spirituality ripped out of their being.
You obsess over narratives and labels because you perceive them as empowering, a way to avoid your personal weaknesses and confusions. You're moralizing your emotions. You're giving yourself no incentive to investigate matters or learn anything new. You're showing yourself the utmost disrespect in an attempt to fit into something you do not understand.
You need to find religion and focus on your internal problems.
They have pitfalls. Isn't it at least interesting to note that a charity serving the third world probably pays for its executives to live a significantly above average first-world life?
Many of the biggest charities clearly have something improper going on. Choose your source, here is one: https://www.charitynavigator.o...
In any case, suffering cannot be simply alleviated with no alternative in place to prevent the forces that caused the suffering to begin with from returning. The suffering will simply return.
Your best bet to help people is to tend to your own arena and exert your influence on your own society. Our society has deep problems and the suffering for these is passed down. How can we help others when we are so mired in our own problems? Too often people give charity to try to fill a spiritual hole in themselves or even worse to inflate their own ego without being honest with themselves about it. Either way most people lie to themselves about the good they are doing and giving to charity sublimates their sense of social responsibility.
One thing is the identity politics divide. If you participate in the slinging against one identity of the other you are simply throwing away your greatest potential to change anything in the world by buying a false concept of the workings of the world. Then you are the one that needs help.
So you read that entire thing and that's all you have to say? Why am I even supposed to be a nazi here? Why do you abuse yourself by reading something so long that you hate only to recoil in pain when you're done?
Facebook was so invested in because its potential to break down society was realized by its big investors. It wasn't a shot in the dark with their billions of dollars. It wasn't a surprise that social media would transform our society. They knew what it was to become and it profits them immensely. Why do they want to break down society? Because they want to increase the level of control they have. Instead of programming society on the scale of groups, they want to control every atom; every individual, and open up new roads to exponentially more power.
People always explain away things like this saying "well that's just what people want and the company is just giving them what they want and making money, so this isn't really bad, this is progress! There's no conspiracy! People are smart, they aren't so easily suckered into things! They know what's good!"
The thing is that people are actually not that picky. They will accept just about ANY given solution for their basic needs as long as authority backs it consistently enough. So it becomes a question of what exactly we are progressing towards and who's interest it really is in.
Humans are not some transcendent creature with the guarantee of self awareness and intellect and rationality because of how much inherently better they are than all other life on Earth. These are optional features supported by a certain way of life. If you take away the nuances from the human way of life, if you take away the culture that support these higher functions, people go into "backward compatibility mode"; they re-adapt to a simpler, savage, prehistoric world. Simply put they devolve.
While most people don't know themselves well enough to see this, there are people who know this about humanity, and they know about it deeply. These people are leaders. Leaders either choose to try to raise people up to their own level of awareness or leaders choose to plunge people down so they can never rise up. Leaders choose either cooperation or enslavement.
Humans are tribal creatures. They are beyond racist. They are beyond nepotistic. They will kill members of their own families who displease them. Humans are not only genocidal by default, they a fratricidal by default. We can see this at every point in our history. We can see this in our close relatives like the chimpanzee that continue to live a way of life that we departed from eons ago.
Leaders cooperate and enslave in degrees. The closer you are to directly supporting the substance of the leader, that is, the more you share in common with the leader that you align with that leader's will, the more cooperation you will receive. The further, the more enslavement you will receive, up to the point that when your interests drift sufficiently you are immediately killed or otherwise neutralized. What this amounts to is simple: as time goes on you will only become more distant and unable to adapt to the leader. The leader's own will replace everyone else. Eventually you drift into the zone of no return in relation to a current leader and unless the leader changes, your line will end: you, your family, your children all die and there are no more children thereafter. Usually this takes a long time, so long that the diverse interests in the world shift and leaders change and most tribes survive at least long enough to make a compromise and intermingle with the dominant tribe. But things are becoming unusual: power is being consolidated on unprecedented scales with unprecedented stability, and it is making ever more exacting demands on its subjects as their numbers swell to challenge the Earth's ability to sustain them. Humanity's genocidal nature has risen to the surface.
This all sounds very grim, until you consider the fact we've been up and down this situation for millions of years and have some pretty good solutions to the pitfalls and the problems that lead to them. All the machinery is in place for us to CHOOSE our own leaders. Are you choosing yours? Are you prepared to? Can you make yo
Then factor in the layer below, the banking layer, that controls the the fortunes of those billionaires, that gave them permission to become rich and successful and who can use the majority of them to eliminate any one of them that steps out of line.
Honestly, if you're at the point where you get happy because one media company is buying out another, you're acclaiming one demon in favor of another, when both are completely against you. That's about the rock-bottom of brainwashing. Get help, find religion, because you're not handling your life.
It's adorable that you think the movie industry is just about making money.
Yes they make money along the way, but what really justifies their place in the economy and society? Do you really believe the consumers are so discerning that unless every bit of energy used in the production of films is aimed at desperately finding out what audiences want and figuring the best possible way to present it to them? You think the masses are that complicated? Adorable.
The movie industry exists to make propaganda first and foremost. The big six media companies exist for that purpose solely.
Only part of their business is marketing to consumers and giving them what they want. The main part is taking directives handed down from the plutocrats to shape the consumers' minds.
And the consumers are so shallow and self ignorant they believe what they are seeing is actually artistically valuable. As long as it manipulates their emotions and gives them a bone of a thought to chew on, they think it's deeply artistic and spiritually valuable.
Simply put our society is totally and completely insane from lack of spirituality, and they accept the most hollow, fake, ugly, and insubstantial substitutes in their desperation to fill in their total lack of soul. The hole that religion left is destabilizing things even for the plutocrats.
We are at a critical point in our evolution. The human species is diverging. You have three archetypes: plutocratic tyrants, their mindless slaves, and the people in the middle: the reactionaries, the preservers of humanity. These are the three targets the forces of nature are funneling all humanity into.
On one hand we have the tyrants and their cattle, on the other hand we have human beings. Pick one hand. The other dies forever.
Your unguarded participation in this society picks the bad hand.
It's not for "profit", it's for social influence....it is rife with marxist ideas. You need to slap yourself and realize what his happening to your society.
Are people still trusting "word of mouth" from the six big media corporations?
How quickly we forget "Trump is definitely going to lose why doesn't he just quit the odds are guaranteed LOL".
By the fact that it is a sequel it inherently has zero artistic value. The only reason to keep a franchise going is because the consumers are attached to the superficialities of the symbols in the work. And the producers aren't just using that attachment to make money by selling movie tickets. They are leveraging that attachment to influence the audience.
Put yourself in the producer's place. You have the most popular franchise of all time. For as long as your movie runs, most of the population that watches it are going to be completely off their guard and just trying to enjoy themselves. Do you love your audience so much that you simply try to make them as happy as possible? Or do you see the opportunity to whisper in messages that benefit the social overtures of your political friends? Which ends up benefiting you more? Do you want political power or are you just going to leave that on the table?
Obviously these sequels are just propaganda vehicles.
But what if a single person is as powerful as an organization? So you believe in liberty for those without power and restrictions on liberty for those with power?
Obviously this is just communism/marxism. What I'm asking is, how do you tell what needs restriction and what needs to be left alone? What are the core principles?
Balance is itself an extreme - it requires organization and rule and measurement more than any other state of being, is this not true?
Homeless people aren't as cute as animals so they yield a harder-to-sell virtue signalling product.
You seem to be starting on the assumption that these organizations exist to actually do good. Actually they exist to sublimate the middle-to-upper class's sense of personal social responsibility to keep them in a state of brainless consumerism with no actual hand in their own governance.
The left's newfound Russia Derangement Syndrome is beyond parody.
Indeed it is. A joke that is taken too seriously is a lie. A lie taken too seriously is a crime.
This is a crime. We must all start standing up against it.
The "Open Internet" isn't going anywhere, which essentially boils down to him telling the masses that nothing is going to change as far as they are concerned.
So then why is so much energy being put into the policy change?
In reality They just want more leverage to keep people in certain bubbles without them realizing it. Apparently freedom of discourse is a threat to the establishment.
Discrimination of what though? The concept of discrimination (no newspeak connotations, dictionary definition) regards the highest functioning of the human mind. You can't use the word meaningfully without supply a relatively large amount of context.
Unless of course you don't care what anything means and you just say certain words to signal 'virtue' like a rat in a lab presses a button to receive cocaine.
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You sound exactly like a bot.
You are extremely sick. You have severe mental illness. You need religion. Get help.
More likely they put $20 million into a slush fund and just said it was for investigating UFOs because it was funny and might serve a social conditioning purpose. Certainly everyone seems a bit distracted by this story.
There is a difference between believing in the free market as a concept and believing that the western economy is a free market. It is not. It's a corporate welfare state. The government is identical with publicly traded companies and it does micromanage the economy. What is the Federal Reserve Bank?
We have been invaded and the vast majority of people who have stood up against the invaders since the Civil War (English or American, either is applicable) have been demonized and everyone who falls for the narratives has their rational mind and their spirituality ripped out of their being.
Yeah, their ad business is just a payment network for them censorship and propaganda aparatus
Google will stretch forth its will to censor and arbitrate discourse supported by brainless illiberal leftists
You obsess over narratives and labels because you perceive them as empowering, a way to avoid your personal weaknesses and confusions. You're moralizing your emotions. You're giving yourself no incentive to investigate matters or learn anything new. You're showing yourself the utmost disrespect in an attempt to fit into something you do not understand.
You need to find religion and focus on your internal problems.
Have you seen the motivation of the editors yet?
They have pitfalls.
Isn't it at least interesting to note that a charity serving the third world probably pays for its executives to live a significantly above average first-world life?
Many of the biggest charities clearly have something improper going on.
Choose your source, here is one:
https://www.charitynavigator.o...
In any case, suffering cannot be simply alleviated with no alternative in place to prevent the forces that caused the suffering to begin with from returning. The suffering will simply return.
Your best bet to help people is to tend to your own arena and exert your influence on your own society. Our society has deep problems and the suffering for these is passed down. How can we help others when we are so mired in our own problems?
Too often people give charity to try to fill a spiritual hole in themselves or even worse to inflate their own ego without being honest with themselves about it.
Either way most people lie to themselves about the good they are doing and giving to charity sublimates their sense of social responsibility.
One thing is the identity politics divide. If you participate in the slinging against one identity of the other you are simply throwing away your greatest potential to change anything in the world by buying a false concept of the workings of the world. Then you are the one that needs help.
So you read that entire thing and that's all you have to say? Why am I even supposed to be a nazi here? Why do you abuse yourself by reading something so long that you hate only to recoil in pain when you're done?
Facebook was so invested in because its potential to break down society was realized by its big investors. It wasn't a shot in the dark with their billions of dollars. It wasn't a surprise that social media would transform our society. They knew what it was to become and it profits them immensely.
Why do they want to break down society? Because they want to increase the level of control they have. Instead of programming society on the scale of groups, they want to control every atom; every individual, and open up new roads to exponentially more power.
People always explain away things like this saying "well that's just what people want and the company is just giving them what they want and making money, so this isn't really bad, this is progress! There's no conspiracy! People are smart, they aren't so easily suckered into things! They know what's good!"
The thing is that people are actually not that picky. They will accept just about ANY given solution for their basic needs as long as authority backs it consistently enough. So it becomes a question of what exactly we are progressing towards and who's interest it really is in.
Humans are not some transcendent creature with the guarantee of self awareness and intellect and rationality because of how much inherently better they are than all other life on Earth. These are optional features supported by a certain way of life. If you take away the nuances from the human way of life, if you take away the culture that support these higher functions, people go into "backward compatibility mode"; they re-adapt to a simpler, savage, prehistoric world. Simply put they devolve.
While most people don't know themselves well enough to see this, there are people who know this about humanity, and they know about it deeply. These people are leaders.
Leaders either choose to try to raise people up to their own level of awareness or leaders choose to plunge people down so they can never rise up. Leaders choose either cooperation or enslavement.
Humans are tribal creatures. They are beyond racist. They are beyond nepotistic. They will kill members of their own families who displease them. Humans are not only genocidal by default, they a fratricidal by default.
We can see this at every point in our history. We can see this in our close relatives like the chimpanzee that continue to live a way of life that we departed from eons ago.
Leaders cooperate and enslave in degrees. The closer you are to directly supporting the substance of the leader, that is, the more you share in common with the leader that you align with that leader's will, the more cooperation you will receive. The further, the more enslavement you will receive, up to the point that when your interests drift sufficiently you are immediately killed or otherwise neutralized.
What this amounts to is simple: as time goes on you will only become more distant and unable to adapt to the leader. The leader's own will replace everyone else. Eventually you drift into the zone of no return in relation to a current leader and unless the leader changes, your line will end: you, your family, your children all die and there are no more children thereafter.
Usually this takes a long time, so long that the diverse interests in the world shift and leaders change and most tribes survive at least long enough to make a compromise and intermingle with the dominant tribe. But things are becoming unusual: power is being consolidated on unprecedented scales with unprecedented stability, and it is making ever more exacting demands on its subjects as their numbers swell to challenge the Earth's ability to sustain them.
Humanity's genocidal nature has risen to the surface.
This all sounds very grim, until you consider the fact we've been up and down this situation for millions of years and have some pretty good solutions to the pitfalls and the problems that lead to them.
All the machinery is in place for us to CHOOSE our own leaders. Are you choosing yours? Are you prepared to? Can you make yo
Then factor in the layer below, the banking layer, that controls the the fortunes of those billionaires, that gave them permission to become rich and successful and who can use the majority of them to eliminate any one of them that steps out of line.
Honestly, if you're at the point where you get happy because one media company is buying out another, you're acclaiming one demon in favor of another, when both are completely against you. That's about the rock-bottom of brainwashing. Get help, find religion, because you're not handling your life.
It's adorable that you think the movie industry is just about making money. Yes they make money along the way, but what really justifies their place in the economy and society? Do you really believe the consumers are so discerning that unless every bit of energy used in the production of films is aimed at desperately finding out what audiences want and figuring the best possible way to present it to them? You think the masses are that complicated? Adorable. The movie industry exists to make propaganda first and foremost. The big six media companies exist for that purpose solely. Only part of their business is marketing to consumers and giving them what they want. The main part is taking directives handed down from the plutocrats to shape the consumers' minds. And the consumers are so shallow and self ignorant they believe what they are seeing is actually artistically valuable. As long as it manipulates their emotions and gives them a bone of a thought to chew on, they think it's deeply artistic and spiritually valuable. Simply put our society is totally and completely insane from lack of spirituality, and they accept the most hollow, fake, ugly, and insubstantial substitutes in their desperation to fill in their total lack of soul. The hole that religion left is destabilizing things even for the plutocrats. We are at a critical point in our evolution. The human species is diverging. You have three archetypes: plutocratic tyrants, their mindless slaves, and the people in the middle: the reactionaries, the preservers of humanity. These are the three targets the forces of nature are funneling all humanity into. On one hand we have the tyrants and their cattle, on the other hand we have human beings. Pick one hand. The other dies forever. Your unguarded participation in this society picks the bad hand.
It's not for "profit", it's for social influence....it is rife with marxist ideas. You need to slap yourself and realize what his happening to your society.
The fact that an idiotic troll like this is modded up proves Slashdot is dead
how can you be so lacking in imagination and still hold a creative writing job
Because this is political propaganda, not art
Astute. Or in the critics' case, what else could they believe and still have jobs and families that are still alive?
Are people still trusting "word of mouth" from the six big media corporations? How quickly we forget "Trump is definitely going to lose why doesn't he just quit the odds are guaranteed LOL". By the fact that it is a sequel it inherently has zero artistic value. The only reason to keep a franchise going is because the consumers are attached to the superficialities of the symbols in the work. And the producers aren't just using that attachment to make money by selling movie tickets. They are leveraging that attachment to influence the audience. Put yourself in the producer's place. You have the most popular franchise of all time. For as long as your movie runs, most of the population that watches it are going to be completely off their guard and just trying to enjoy themselves. Do you love your audience so much that you simply try to make them as happy as possible? Or do you see the opportunity to whisper in messages that benefit the social overtures of your political friends? Which ends up benefiting you more? Do you want political power or are you just going to leave that on the table? Obviously these sequels are just propaganda vehicles.
But what if a single person is as powerful as an organization? So you believe in liberty for those without power and restrictions on liberty for those with power? Obviously this is just communism/marxism. What I'm asking is, how do you tell what needs restriction and what needs to be left alone? What are the core principles? Balance is itself an extreme - it requires organization and rule and measurement more than any other state of being, is this not true?
Pretty sure you're nothing like a libertarian
Homeless people aren't as cute as animals so they yield a harder-to-sell virtue signalling product. You seem to be starting on the assumption that these organizations exist to actually do good. Actually they exist to sublimate the middle-to-upper class's sense of personal social responsibility to keep them in a state of brainless consumerism with no actual hand in their own governance.
The left's newfound Russia Derangement Syndrome is beyond parody.
Indeed it is. A joke that is taken too seriously is a lie. A lie taken too seriously is a crime. This is a crime. We must all start standing up against it.
The "Open Internet" isn't going anywhere, which essentially boils down to him telling the masses that nothing is going to change as far as they are concerned. So then why is so much energy being put into the policy change? In reality They just want more leverage to keep people in certain bubbles without them realizing it. Apparently freedom of discourse is a threat to the establishment.
Discrimination of what though? The concept of discrimination (no newspeak connotations, dictionary definition) regards the highest functioning of the human mind. You can't use the word meaningfully without supply a relatively large amount of context. Unless of course you don't care what anything means and you just say certain words to signal 'virtue' like a rat in a lab presses a button to receive cocaine.
Where do you think stem cells comes from? From the butchery of unborn infants.