Disneyland is cover for the fact that the whole country is a Disneyland (Baudrillard)
Matrix is the movie the matrix makes to keep you in the matrix (Damien Walter)
AI is cover for the ongoing project for making everyone less intelligent and capable of participating in the system.
(inspired by Damien Walter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkRdJ3EwWE
@gimulnautti a multitude of examples of the fake reality. Fromm and Kallinen, John Stuart Mill and the pig satisfied.
And my favorite Hypernormalisation.
https://youtu.be/AUiqaFIONPQ?si=R_gGUAmHLP71qRx_
" What he said, which I thought was absolutely fascinating, was that in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system, know that the politicians had no alternative vision. And they knew that the bosses knew that they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal. And this historian, Alexei Yurchak, coined the phrase “HyperNormalisation” to describe that feeling. "
@valehippi I'm familiar with that concept, but haven't watched, thanks!
Perhaps the most crushing dichotomy I can get to is though, that woke actually is the "red pill" they think they've been crawing, but they'd rather take the blue pill that's been painted red by the broligarchy.
@gimulnautti jos MSPaint estetiikka ei pelota niin mä tavailen tätä vähä erilailla, vaikka olenkin samaa mieltä.
Samalla lailla sinisiä on valheellinen toivo talouskasvun tai vihreän siirtymän nimissä, kuin on tää toivoton maalattu punainen pilleri.
Sorry, vaihdoin kielen, koska source on soomefinland!
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