Mastodawn

https://bsky.app/profile/madpussy.bsky.social/post/3mlmkbk3cac25

In other words, you think a purely passive #WeThePeople should be instructed by #TelevisionStations - which is the very point of the 1985 book I linked you earlier in this thread. You abandon your #CivicDuty to promote Dr. Bandy X Lee's 27 leaders on Bluesky as you think only television matters.

"Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to #passivity and #egoism . Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance." #Bluesky

― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse 1985

Wisdom in Space Apr 13

Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

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Su_G Apr 6

@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
Makes what Paul writes all the more important.

#passivity #heroWorship #heroFetish #USPol

@inthehands

sarcastictoast Jan 28

I believe there are real issues that need addressing rather than chasing a problem that doesn’t exist.

A society that encourages #passivity and #conformity, reinforced by #propaganda portraying #Japan as “special”, produces few individuals who practice critical thinking at an institutional level.

Japan sees every situation as a nail because it only knows how to wield a hammer. Not solving real issues.
#自民党 #クッソ自民党

https://famichiki.jp/@mainichi/115970310279071886

The Mainichi 🤖 (@[email protected])

PM Takaichi urges criminal penalties for damaging Japan flag as election race starts https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260128/p2a/00m/0na/005000c

Famichiki

WIST Quotations Jan 7

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

[Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works

Wisdom in Space Dec 23

Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

Hacker News Nov 30, 2025

The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy

https://aliveness.kunnas.com/articles/copenhagen-trap

#HackerNews #CopenhagenTrap #WestStrategy #Passivity #SocialCommentary #AlivenessInsights

The Copenhagen Trap

How legal systems made passivity the only safe strategy

Aliveness

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 24, 2025

A quotation from Aldous Huxley

States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)

More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude