Americans became monsters because anyone on a social machine justifies Elon Musk + Donald Trump behavior because "It's the Internet, this isn't IRL". People who no longer distinguish White House 4Chan
Americans became monsters because anyone on a social machine justifies Elon Musk + Donald Trump behavior because "It's the Internet, this isn't IRL". People who no longer distinguish White House 4Chan
4Chan / Twitter values "For the lulz" nation who thinks Fox News is hilarious, a 78 year old "edge lord" leading the nation as a shit-bird Tweet king on the toilet is funny. As long as everything keeps people entertained with technology.
“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT 1974
Yeah, as an American amongst Americans, this country shits out fucking idiot pieces of shit full of hate and selfishness
I blame the heritage foundation
Was there a particular set of years when it wasn't those things?
1981
... which must have come as a surprise to all the slaves, natives, the lynched, internment camps & private prisons residents, etc.
Reagan... that checks out.
The problem is that a lot of the people that believe this, were told by almost everyone in their life that the reason they're miserable is because of immigration or those uppity black folk, not because of poverty.
They're cheering right now because from their perspective, they're finally seeing something being done about the root of their problems.
They think that after this business is done, they're going to live in 1950s post-war America rather than 1950s post-war Germany.
During their "golden age" millionaires were taxed at over 80% and there was Jim Crow. They think bringing back Jim Crow will fix things, but they ignore the idea of taxing the rich.
1492
"I realized that the roots of this act were not in any time-honored American myth but right beneath my feet in a new kind of society that is only beginning to take shape. To see the Hell's Angels as caretakers of the old "individualist" tradition "that made this country great" is only a painless way to get around seeing them for what they really are — not some romantic leftover, but the first wave of a future that nothing in our history has prepared us to cope with. The Angels are prototypes. Their lack of education has not only rendered them completely useless in a highly technical economy, but it has also given them the leisure to cultivate a powerful resentment… and to translate it into a destructive cult..." - Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (1967)
I helped a woman on crutches to the car with her food the other day. Three people told me what a good person I was when I came back.
That's just basic human decency. I didn't do anything special.