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...fuck.
Yes, we do have a bit of a situation.
Tak does not require we think of him, only that we think
-Thud, Terry Pratchett
Gedichte
nur für mich
und für dich
stehn alleine auch für sich.
What this means is that just like the mountains don't depend on the humans to see and interpret them, poems (who are written only for myself, and coincidentally also for any reader who may stumble upon them) are meaningful in themselves, and don't need to concern themselves with what humans think of them.
it's kinda like software code has a meaning in itself, but is ideally also a beautiful art of self-expression for any programmer who happens to read it.
That doesn't mean we can't still admire and talk about them.
This feels like how it was reading Harry Potter as a kid vs as an adult.
-Which platform?
-9 and 3/4 platform.
-9 and 3 what?
-9 and 3/4 pla...
-Alright, I'm going watch something else.
Is there some hidden meaning in missing here?
Nothing. It's just that I am too old for this mystery component. Something can sound magical and mysterious to me, but not like a stupid platform number. In my opinion it's more children orientated.
I was talking more about JK Rowling's right wing rhetoric in the Harry Potter books.
Not directly relevant, but: I think M. Night Shyamalan's movie Signs would have been better if it had turned out that wearing aluminum foil caps really did hide your thoughts from those aliens. I mean, it wouldn't have been any stupider than aliens invading a planet full of a substance that killed them (water) and not being able to figure out how doorknobs work.
My favourite foil cap trope reference is Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. It has several characters with supernatural abilities that can affect other people's emotions, and aluminum happens to block all kinds of magic powers in Sanderson's larger book universe. So a lot of rich and important people wear hats that are lined with aluminum foil on the inside to protect them from emotional influence.
We all got our limitations, man.
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No no he's onto something, jewelers invented trees to sell more tree-themed jewelry
Why does he do that?
It's when he remembers that Jews exist.
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Trees are fake. They're actually solar panels planted by the Chinese.
I recall an episode of Behind the Bastards where they explained how the "flat Earth" conspiracy theory was literally the core of a Nazi splinter group that was never stamped out
...flat earth nazis... they invented practical ballistic rocketry for fucks.. I just... like... goddamn....
There was always 2 halves* to the party. There's the skilled and educated people that often (but not always) signed up to party membership for preferential treatment, and then there's the pseudoscience nutjobs that were brought on to vote and push the 'aryanism' ideology
*Not really, but my comment won't make sense otherwise.
It's amazing how many conspiracies are just white supremacy with a different hat.
Trees are obviously made up by Canadians to disguise where maple syrup Really comes from.
Rain was invented by umbrella companies to sell more umbrellas.
Then there's David Ike who while crazy legit thinks there are like lizard people, there is no deeper meaning where it breaks down to "It's da Jews". He is crazy but has standards.
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My experience with those struggling with their grasp on reality has been, more often than not, that they blame various three letter agencies of the US government, not "the Jews".
Of course, conspiracy theorist aren't usually struggling with mental illness, but rather an overblown sense of self-worth and the inevitable result of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Insert a George Carlin quote about how stupid the average person is
A lot of things that were laughed at as being "conspiracy theories" surrounding three letter agencies later turned out to be true.
True.
What I was thinking of was more along the lines of "There's a midget working for the FBI hiding in my attic and stealing my clothes while I sleep" - an actual statement from a woman who was hypoxic (and didn't have an attic)
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Conspiracists have been stranded to figure out their own chosen "other" to fear and hate since Israel stepped into the scene and the Republicans (and most dems) made any criticism of their genocide "anti semitism" in a playbook move straight out of internet trolling tactics.
So you can turn your back on "God's blessed war against the Muslim beasts" OR you can suddenly start softening towards the idea that Jewish Cabals are running our whole country.
It's been kind of spectacular to see the right splinter around the edges over this even before the Epstein stuff.
Too bad none of it will actually make a real dent in a political ideology that is already built on cognitive dissonance.
What gets me is the guy. I grew up where you only saw this stupid crap coming out of the mouths of a guy like this walking around the seven eleven or the weekly world news and no ordinary person paid them no mind.
Most conspiracy theories get very close to the truth before the take a turn straight into schizophrenia village.
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The Hierarchy Enslaving You
Then the guy gets a Federal cabinet post.
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