Ooh, I like this! "Wet streets cause rain". Sums up quite a lot doesn't it?
Many many people think that the authorities are totally wrong on some things but totally right on other things and don't seem to notice it's the same authorities getting it right and wrong!
What is the solution? Personally, I would get rid of "the authorities" - generally it's The Circumlocation Office which slowly and inefficiently runs the world in a corrupt and lazy fashion. We don't need it. When has a modern govenment ever improved anything? The things that needed improving were done decades ago, the things that need an eye kept on them can be monitored lower down the pecking order (local inspectors checking there's no ground chalk in the flour sort of thing). Yes, some sort of police force is needed but for chasing crooks not hassling opinions. Who needs war-mongering corrupt politicians? Or the media outlets that support them.
2. "Masks are needed but we told you they were not because we did not have enough"
Most people believed the 2nd sentence. But the 2nd sentence was coming from the same guy who said the first + in the 2nd sentence itself they are saying that they lied to you.
Good insight, but needs a lot more detail. People are individuals, for one thing.
2) it cuts both ways - conservatives have always decried government interference in their lives and big, wasteful government. BUT - they want a strong military state and damn the COST-equences and they want a state that has a good intelligence arm - forgetting, conveniently, that CIA and friends will happily spy on their own citizens.
Writing from a European (specifically, German) perspective, I am much more used to the government having certain topics under control. And often this is not too bad. Many things were even handled better when owned by the state (railways, postal service) than nowadays, when you have neither state control nor free markets but some ugly mixture.
Stochastically speaking, handing power over certain areas to the government means trading expectation value (better outcome on average) for tail risk (probability of tyranny or total mess-up).
Gell-Mann amnesia is wide spread! It is a mass denial of reality. We have been trained not to see larger systemic cause-effect frameworks for understandable reasons. They don’t want us figuring out the whole system is working for a tiny predator group, and that all negative effects we are experiencing spring out from the same hierarchical system exclusively serving a tiny predatory minority. A critical mass of us focusing on the few at the top of the pyramid would result in their instant disappearance. That is why we must remain blind, suffering from amnesia, focusing on the immediate and near, preferably blaming one another, yelling, screaming, at each other’s throats.
The main plan seems to be to keep us 'outraged' at the news, chaos creation to distract from the much simpler realization that we are being killed off. The more ridiculous and nonsensical, the better to the 'them' wot does it. Every alt broadcaster I know falls for it, expresses 'outrage' at stories that only serve to deepen my outrage at the whole debacle.
as an olden retired RN, I concur. The whole thing from the beginning was like a children's make believe story that we were forced to abide by or be completely destroyed.
Many of us were abused and continue to be so by others that were compliant to the entire hoax.
Ooh, I like this! "Wet streets cause rain". Sums up quite a lot doesn't it?
Many many people think that the authorities are totally wrong on some things but totally right on other things and don't seem to notice it's the same authorities getting it right and wrong!
What is the solution? Personally, I would get rid of "the authorities" - generally it's The Circumlocation Office which slowly and inefficiently runs the world in a corrupt and lazy fashion. We don't need it. When has a modern govenment ever improved anything? The things that needed improving were done decades ago, the things that need an eye kept on them can be monitored lower down the pecking order (local inspectors checking there's no ground chalk in the flour sort of thing). Yes, some sort of police force is needed but for chasing crooks not hassling opinions. Who needs war-mongering corrupt politicians? Or the media outlets that support them.
(ooh - bit of a rant - sorry!)
Ok, I think this happened in many countries:
1. "Masks are not needed".
2. "Masks are needed but we told you they were not because we did not have enough"
Most people believed the 2nd sentence. But the 2nd sentence was coming from the same guy who said the first + in the 2nd sentence itself they are saying that they lied to you.
Good insight, but needs a lot more detail. People are individuals, for one thing.
2) it cuts both ways - conservatives have always decried government interference in their lives and big, wasteful government. BUT - they want a strong military state and damn the COST-equences and they want a state that has a good intelligence arm - forgetting, conveniently, that CIA and friends will happily spy on their own citizens.
Thank you! RFK Jr has this problem.
Writing from a European (specifically, German) perspective, I am much more used to the government having certain topics under control. And often this is not too bad. Many things were even handled better when owned by the state (railways, postal service) than nowadays, when you have neither state control nor free markets but some ugly mixture.
Stochastically speaking, handing power over certain areas to the government means trading expectation value (better outcome on average) for tail risk (probability of tyranny or total mess-up).
Gell-Mann amnesia is wide spread! It is a mass denial of reality. We have been trained not to see larger systemic cause-effect frameworks for understandable reasons. They don’t want us figuring out the whole system is working for a tiny predator group, and that all negative effects we are experiencing spring out from the same hierarchical system exclusively serving a tiny predatory minority. A critical mass of us focusing on the few at the top of the pyramid would result in their instant disappearance. That is why we must remain blind, suffering from amnesia, focusing on the immediate and near, preferably blaming one another, yelling, screaming, at each other’s throats.
Read this and you will never read a newspaper again. Problem is most people won’t read this because it’s 11 pages long.
https://gwern.net/doc/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf
The main plan seems to be to keep us 'outraged' at the news, chaos creation to distract from the much simpler realization that we are being killed off. The more ridiculous and nonsensical, the better to the 'them' wot does it. Every alt broadcaster I know falls for it, expresses 'outrage' at stories that only serve to deepen my outrage at the whole debacle.
as an olden retired RN, I concur. The whole thing from the beginning was like a children's make believe story that we were forced to abide by or be completely destroyed.
Many of us were abused and continue to be so by others that were compliant to the entire hoax.