(April 24, 2025 at 10:06 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I think the vast majority of us intend to be decent, but many are very susceptible to propaganda and other manipulation. And most of the rest of are hardly immune to it. Methods of manipulation can be used to amplify our fears and worst impulses. They can be used to do the opposite, but that kind of manipulation doesn't seem nearly as successful.
I doubt it. Though it may be that people intend to be decent (just like they intend to go on diet tomorrow) but rarely are. If decency would be more than intention then I somehow doubt that issued like hunger or poverty would still exist. Decent people wouldn't let others starve even if said others would live thousands of kilometers from them.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
