A democracy only survives if the population is not feeding off of propaganda. Lying to others should be a crime treated with more accountability than murder. When you kill someone they rest in piece but when you lie to someone you have stolen their soul, their direction in life, for you're own desires. When you lie to someone you make them, in a way, a slave to w/e causes YOU deem important. Not the actual host whose mind now harbors that lie like a fucking chain moving them in w/e direction YOU want. It's fucking disgusting. And these people deserve to be lock up for a very long time.
The fog came heavy off the river and rolled through the busy street, viscous and slow, carrying the smell of silt.
The sounds of games and chatter grew thin the further Leo walked away from the Fall Festival. It had no set hour for its closing, but traditionally ended with the sun's descent. Today the sky burned with pinks and oranges in the west. Until darkness came down over the city of Evansville, like a large tarp drawn overhead and pulled taut, riddled with shining holes.
Alongside him walked a man of about the same age who had unkempt short black hair, large ears and wore a red hooded windbreaker zipped to his throat. He kept pace with Leo. Hands resting in his coat pockets. At the corner Leo passed him an apple fritter, half-wrapped in a wrinkled napkin. The man took it and smiled. Then the two said their goodbyes with a strong embrace before he left him, cutting east back down the street. Leo kept his eyes on him, watching as the red of his jacket shrank before the crowd…
This place is a trap. This town is a trap. This country, this world, this galaxy, universe. We are all trapped.
Matter cannot be created, matter cannot be destroyed. And so it always was…
Long ago, before everything else, there was something. One thing. Then, the something began to stir. It stirred for time untold until it understood: I AM.
I really hate this...
If anyone is actually interested in any of this, I'd highly recommend "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The wording here along with the music and visuals make us look like violent, quarreling idiots en masse, which couldn't be further from the truth. Also, @kurzgesagt: good call leaving out the Reverse Dominance Hierarchy. Wouldn't want to spread any ideas that actually lead somewhere, right? "But there was more to their lives than war" you mean like... most people who just fucking peacefully died? Old and disabled who were unable to take care of themselves and instead of killing them off for being a burden, in the harshest of conditions we would still take care of them? How about collectivism which you have completely fucking swept under the rug you pos. But yes, lets do care about "The richest people of their age" Uuuuuugggggghhhhhhhhhh... You're priorities…
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Many great points. Watch what you put in your head and in the heads of your children: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHIIHnNiKZk You're brain is only 10% conscious, 90% is automatic emotional connections. Morality must return. I know things are not binary, but at the end of the line you can add up the ones and zeros and see what is happening. Scope is another issue but - for another time.
Even if you are on your own profile, you can use double square brackets - then an exclamation-mark - and the name of the pond (folder) before closing the square brackets to post a thing INTO that pond (as long as you are a member of it and as long as you are the head of the tread), like this! [[!story-writing]] = →story-writing
And I used ticks (this: ` ) to show you how. Ticks like these ` are used to format the font of text to look more like code - but it doubles as a way to escape other formatting rules so you can see what I am doing without it counting as a link or anything else!
This is something I would really like to look into. Seems like a lot of these writing applications are comming out of the wood work right now, likely because of AI. youtu.be/HLq91cDWx0s
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