I do appreciate Desmet's providing a definition for the insanity. Once we realize the extent of the insanity and that it is totalitarianism it is only step one. The rational steps forward are recognizing we have all been abused by master puppeteers and exiting the relationship ASAP. We must recognize the problems first. Going forward with sanity may be the most difficult thing we have ever done as a species. No group of human beings should be so abused for so long by toxic narcissist psychopaths.
DeSmet does try to answer a provocative question: Why do millions of people silently endure a torrent of frightening words, recognize a few bits and pieces of the torrent as plainly false, but come away unable to voice any of their own ideas?
Perhaps the answer to the question is at least partly that certain of the plutocrats owned social media companies, and in the lands of the Blue Meanies, fear of being censored off social media overcame every other concern. This might explain why a stadium full of people chanting "(bleep) Joe Biden" in Tempe, gets broadcast into Hackensack by a commentator misquoting them as saying "Let's Go Gordon". In red country it was not particularly harsh to be kicked off Facebook or Twitter because ordinary social life continued normally.
I do appreciate Desmet's providing a definition for the insanity. Once we realize the extent of the insanity and that it is totalitarianism it is only step one. The rational steps forward are recognizing we have all been abused by master puppeteers and exiting the relationship ASAP. We must recognize the problems first. Going forward with sanity may be the most difficult thing we have ever done as a species. No group of human beings should be so abused for so long by toxic narcissist psychopaths.
DeSmet does try to answer a provocative question: Why do millions of people silently endure a torrent of frightening words, recognize a few bits and pieces of the torrent as plainly false, but come away unable to voice any of their own ideas?
Perhaps the answer to the question is at least partly that certain of the plutocrats owned social media companies, and in the lands of the Blue Meanies, fear of being censored off social media overcame every other concern. This might explain why a stadium full of people chanting "(bleep) Joe Biden" in Tempe, gets broadcast into Hackensack by a commentator misquoting them as saying "Let's Go Gordon". In red country it was not particularly harsh to be kicked off Facebook or Twitter because ordinary social life continued normally.