What the FUCK is happening?!?! Everyone just casually talking about the movie Disclosure as if it's a real disclosure of aliens on Earth. A "soft" introduction for the weakling populations who are not "in the know".

These people raise children and vote. Humanity is fucked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO3t2z0H7nc

#UFOmania #idiocracy #massdelusion #antiintellectualism #paranormal

The Dumb States of America: Antiintellectualism, the death of democracy and why the world is exhausted of Americans
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Los Estados Tontos de América: El antiintelectualismo, la muerte de la democracia y por qué el mundo está harto de los gringos

#usa #antiintellectualism #americanculture

https://youtu.be/j9MubNsh3rs?si=UjjX8tooyNgMZCnh

“When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.

Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.

A nation of sheep has a government of wolves. Those who fight for the sheep are dangerous to the wolves. Perhaps… the wolves need a reminder that, at the end of the day, they all bleed the same colour—and the river of blood enriches the soil for the sheep to graze.”

Written during the height of nationwide protests in my country that I had to self-censor and avoid naming it

https://wrzky.com/the-violence-of-stupidity/

#politics #poverty #dissent #IndonesiaGelap #womensrights #muslimvoices #writer #press #activism #antiintellectualism

Alberto Manguel writes in A History of Reading, “Throughout the South, it was common for plantation owners to hang any slave who tried to teach the others how to spell… The slave-owners (like dictators, tyrants, absolute monarchs and other illicit holders of power) were strong believers in the power of the written word. They knew, far better than some readers, that reading is a strength that requires barely a few first words to become overwhelming. Someone able to read one sentence is able to read all… For all these reasons, reading had to be forbidden… An illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
— Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
-- Isaac Asimov

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #AntiIntellectualism #Democracy #Ignorance #Knowledge #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

I agree completely. No notes.

Palantir Twitter Manifesto
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DIMS5FSZoAw&si=Qpd8fJqVSLFw5b_H

#ai #palantir #warcrimes #facism #technofeudalism #alexcarp #antiintellectualism