RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
May 18, 2022 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2022 at 1:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
People are also still eating peanut butter. That's how they control us - obviously.
As far as people being controlled..yet again, you'll find that the lock-step coalitions at present are almost entirely the purview of reich wingers and christian dominionists. If it were easier to corral their political opposition..they'd have been defeated as a minority movement long ago. As it stands, we'll probably just have to wait for the last of them to die..which isn't going to be long now. Here again the value-to-control of theistic ideology is in stark contrast to the complete inability of the secular values camp to form such a coalition.
Not for lack of trying, mind you. There are cults of state. There are single issue movements. There's even some hope (completely misplaced, imo) that the values of christian dominionism can be somehow transformed into something like secular values. That the jesusists..will find jesus.
All of this, mind you, a sidebar..since the OP premise is that we want to find some lever of control, to keep society together, for example..to teach kids The Right Stuff™. To enforce a (as yet undescribed) moral conformity. Control is not the problem, but the goal. The item in question. The tangible goods sought.
As far as people being controlled..yet again, you'll find that the lock-step coalitions at present are almost entirely the purview of reich wingers and christian dominionists. If it were easier to corral their political opposition..they'd have been defeated as a minority movement long ago. As it stands, we'll probably just have to wait for the last of them to die..which isn't going to be long now. Here again the value-to-control of theistic ideology is in stark contrast to the complete inability of the secular values camp to form such a coalition.
Not for lack of trying, mind you. There are cults of state. There are single issue movements. There's even some hope (completely misplaced, imo) that the values of christian dominionism can be somehow transformed into something like secular values. That the jesusists..will find jesus.
All of this, mind you, a sidebar..since the OP premise is that we want to find some lever of control, to keep society together, for example..to teach kids The Right Stuff™. To enforce a (as yet undescribed) moral conformity. Control is not the problem, but the goal. The item in question. The tangible goods sought.
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