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| quote: | Originally posted by noikeee
The conspiracy theorists, like TrancerX, b.s.e., etc. Fuck, dumb people are so fucking dumb. |
It's a shame that so many people think that the dumb ones are those who actually question our reality after having found the government's lies and propaganda to be so flagrantly unacceptable.
They've apparently been programmed to use memes and buzzwords in place of critical thinking skills while further perpetuating their ignorance in the form of what Aldous Huxley coined as "herd poisoning."
| quote: | To men and women under the influence of herd-poison, "whatever I say three times is true"—and whatever I say three hundred times is Revelation, is the directly inspired Word of God. That is why men in authority—the priests and the rulers of peoples—have never unequivocally proclaimed the immorality of this form of downward self-transcendence. True, crowd-delirium evoked by members of the opposition and in the name of heretical principles has everywhere been denounced by those in power. But crowd- delirium aroused by government agents, crowd-delirium in the name of orthodoxy, is an entirely different matter. In all cases where it can be made to serve the interests of the men controlling church and state, downward self-transcendence by means of herd-intoxication is treated as something legitimate, and even highly desirable. Pilgrimages and political rallies, corybantic revivals and patriotic parades—these things are ethically right so long as they are our pilgrimages, our rallies, our revivals and our parades. The fact that most of those who take part in these affairs are temporarily dehumanized by herd-poison is of no account in comparison with the fact that their dehumanization may be used to consolidate the religious and political powers that be.
- Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun, 1953 |
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| quote: | "Learn, child, to catch a hint through whatever agency it may be given. 'Sermons may be preached through stones."
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Letters from the Masters of Wisdom, first series, p. 74, letter 31 |
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