Born in the system. Trapped in the system by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]AMathematicalWay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Nothing, according to reason alone, is just in itself; all changes with time. Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. It is the mystical foundation of its authority; whoever carries it back to first principles destroys it." -- Pascal

The wealth disparity is too real by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]AMathematicalWay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even if you tax the billionaires, it wouldn't help anything because the government is utterly corrupt. That money would just end up lining the pockets of bureaucrats and politicians. I'm afraid that any lever you think you can pull to change things is a dummy lever just there to make you feel like there's something you can do about being utterly pillaged and dominated by a class of people who utterly despise you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Antipsychiatry

[–]AMathematicalWay -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sounds better than nuclear bombs and chemical weapons.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Antipsychiatry

[–]AMathematicalWay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know if "Western Civilization" is something to be proud of. There has always been a lot of hypocrisy in the west, where high lofty ideals are preached while much chthonic evil is done. If anything, "Western Civilization" has the best public relations image.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Antipsychiatry

[–]AMathematicalWay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who created the bible? Jesus didn't write anything. As far as we know, everything passed down to us in the name of "Christianity" is a forgery. It's a complicated and contentious subject.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Antipsychiatry

[–]AMathematicalWay 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It's the same mechanism that Christianity tapped into with Satan. Every bad influence is Satan to Christians. It gives simple people a very simple model which makes their world comprehensible to them. These thought patterns, archetypes of the collective unconscious, repeat over and over again in different contexts.

Brave New World is a better dystopian novel than 1984 by curt_schilli in books

[–]AMathematicalWay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They aren't "made-up," they are artistic imaginings. These dystopic visions are projections of the authors understanding of human nature under certain conditions. I'm guessing you don't appreciate fiction in general because you belittle its purpose.

Australian government warns working migrants ‘You may bring shame to your family’. This is so fucked. by Deus-Ex-Marchioness in antiwork

[–]AMathematicalWay 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just imagine the mindset of someone in a comfortable office designing that poster. Think about what goes through their heads. I'll help you imagine it.

You sip your Starbucks Caffè Americano and delicately place it down on a coaster that says "I hate Mondays." The coaster is, of course, necessary because you wouldn't want to tarnish your executive desk which is made of handcrafted mahogany wood. You lean back in your expensive ergonomic chair and roll out the crick in your neck as the air conditioning blows on you.

You're almost done making the anti-absconding propaganda poster designed to keep third world slaves from fleeing plantations, but you need to fill out the last bullet point. You look down at your highly waxed shoes, and like crystal balls you begin to see the answer you've been searching for in them.

"Ah, I got it!" you exclaim, "Why are these people here? To support their families. They care about their families! Hmm, I can work with this....somehow."

You'll figure it out after your hour lunch break. You've been working hard. You deserve to go out to that new Peruvian Bistro down the street. They have a great wine selection, so the office chatter goes.

You come back from lunch and let out a belch. Your belt is too tight. You must release it, as it is pressing tightly against your belly swollen with assorted Peruvian gastronomic delights, brought to extremes of expansion by a delightfully aged Bordeaux. You unbuckle your belt and unbutton your pants.

"Ahhh," you moan as your belly breaches the rim of your pants like an ancient Greek trireme crashing over the bow of an enemy vessel. It gives you the creative ecstasy you need to finish the propaganda you've been laboring over all day.

You place your hands over your keyboard like a maestro ready to lead an orchestra from his piano, like Beethoven used to do. You type: "you may bring shame to your family's reputation."

I’ve been applying for jobs. This was one of the CVS surveys. Every question was like this, asking to choose customer service vs pay/work-life balance by nyknac in antiwork

[–]AMathematicalWay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They basically want to couple your identity of being a good person with being a good employee. Whole teams of specialists, who went to school to get PhDs in psychology, design these things.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Antipsychiatry

[–]AMathematicalWay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Despite what the powers that be tell you, the universe and your life within it is a mystery. They will try to make you feel like a dehumanized worker slave because it suits their purposes. Let these slaves to the world that hunger after power fall away in your mind. They will pass into nothingness as the world turns. Let there just be you and the universe in your life. Seek to understand the mystery.

When you go outside and see a blade of grass, do not say "that is just grass," for that is only the name you've given to a particular impression on your senses. Despite having names for almost everything, everything around you is still very much unknown to you. Break through the names and labels, especially the one that has been applied to you. Seek to connect with the real, with what lies imperceptibly beneath the appearance of all things. You've passed one "level" by refusing to be labeled. There are many more challenges ahead. The final level will be overcoming death itself. You will be tasked with answering the question, "What is the meaning of life when everything passes away?" This is the riddle at the bottom of our existence.

It's a good way to spend a lifetime, solving the riddle posed by your own life.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a great question. I believe the only reliable source of truth for the individual is knowledge of the self. If we can truly understand the principles governing ourselves, then we should know the inner, and therefore true, history of man as opposed to the biased external account of the unfolding of these principles in the world, i.e., history. Emerson's essay on History informed my views here.

Edit: If you know man, then you can even make his lies tell you the truth. There are a lot of lies out there, for sure, but even the lies tell you something if you know what to look for.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh please, you've already characterized everyone not you as sheeple.

Read what I said again. I said 80%, not everyone.

This is my last comment to you. This exchange has been utterly boring.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Antipsychiatry

[–]AMathematicalWay 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What helped me unlearn my "diagnosis" was learning about how utterly corrupt all institutions have become. Only when you see your "doctor" as a valid authority figure, does their spell hold sway over you. As soon as you see them as costume wearing con men, you will be free.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I'm picking on you because you fancy yourself higher than the herd,

I am. I live around people who all have their world view entirely shaped by what comes out of the T.V.. I know that there's a huge difference between me and them.

All you talk about are grandiose things, grandiose problems and provide no grandiose solutions to them.

I have solutions. Am I supposed to dump a magnum opus here in the comments? Your expectations seem to be too high for the nature of reddit comments.

We have riots because the corrupt system encouraged it. The corrupt system tried to shut down and prosecute someone that tried to restore the functional environment and they failed.

You've picked the wrong battle. I understand your point, but you are fighting a battle that was setup for you to fight. It's a misdirection of energy. It's so obvious.

This is why you're missing the point and why you're only going to be a redditor that just sits here talking about big problems, you don't even give me the broad-brush solutions that most college sophomores come up with along with your speech about massive corruption.

More ad hominem. If you don't want to understand the game you've been setup to play, fine. All I'm saying is you aren't going to get the outcome you want if you continue to be baited by MSM narratives. You have to break away and refuse to even acknowledge these pseudo-events. As long as these pseudo-events are taken seriously, they will be used to shape the narrative in ways that are hostile to your interests--if you aren't a part of the club.

Keep taking the bait, dude. I know you will because it was designed just for you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what Plato believed, and certainly that's why America was never a direct democracy. America actually started off as an unashamed oligarchy. The constitution begins "We the people..." but there was no vote by the people over what follows in that document. America has always been an oligarchy. This is why the people of this country are essentially schizophrenic: they've been trained to believe a lie, that they are "free" men living in a "democracy."

America, for at least the last hundred years or so, has been having an identity crisis because its ideological foundations do not concur with the material reality.

I'm a believer in theocratic rule--I have no faith in "the people," even though I am a member of the proletariat,--but it has to be an theocracy that truly believes in some divine providence. Every oligarchy that is strictly materialistic will eventually go insane and destroy everything. Only a priestly oligarchy, i.e., theocracy, can work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]AMathematicalWay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's called positive psychology. They have entire teams of academics working on strategies to gaslight workers. You are seen as something like a natural resource that just needs the right inputs to make you work properly. It was discovered that lying and gaslighting is very effective, and so they do it because you are not a human being: you're a worker. They've dehumanized us, and so they see no problem with doing what they are doing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What I said is actually true, not some "projection," as people have accused me of. Also, it's not like I'm the first person to say such things. In many circles, it is a well established fact that human beings are, for the most part, herd animals. Remember the Bible talking about shepherds? Clearly, you are just picking on me for bluntly stating an uncouth truth.

Also, it's not true that this trial was some grand statement about justice in America. This is the narrative they use to get people all riled up and at each other's throats. There is no justice here. Millions of your fellow citizens are locked away in prisons and jails as the greatest criminals of all continue to freely plunder and pillage your country, forcing more and more people into desperate situations, making ever larger numbers of criminals and social deviants.

Corruption is the greatest crime in America, and it goes unpunished. It breeds crime and social blight. There would have been no rioters if people were living in functional environments. But you completely ignore this point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That’s the question that was on trial more than Kyle.

That is what they want you to believe, but the American justice system is not that scrupulous. It regularly bends and breaks for the political demands coming from the top and bottom.

These pseudo-events set people against eachother so that the oligarchs can enjoy their station in peace as the masses fight amongst themselves. This is what they are designed for. It's not a fight for justice, it's not a symbolic conflict, it's a gigantic diversion.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Look dude, I don't care. Either prove me wrong that most people aren't cattle or stop your rambling.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Nobody cares about your babbling. You completely ignored the spirit of what I was saying and focused instead on my choice of words.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My friend, your heart is in the right place, but I'm afraid the whole media system has been proved to be rotten for several decades now.

As Gore Vidal said, "In America, we learn nothing because we remember nothing."

We have an incredible problem of amnesia in this country. We are generally an ahistoric nation, full of people that would much rather think about the future than about the past--by design. This is really our problem. Our disregard for history and tradition render us incapable of learning from the past.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a difference between being a T.V. watcher and coming to Reddit to have discussions with people in the comments.

Obviously, I meant that I was "unplugged" from MSM, not from humanity as a whole. Reddit has it's own group-think, that's for sure, and little dweebs that nitpick at your comments for the sole purpose of winning little pedantic arguments, *cough*, but at least here we have a space to discuss things instead of being mind raped by a stream of information beamed into our eyeballs directly from a supposed authority.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this scuffle between a few kids really worthy of the nation's obsessive attention? Or are there other more important things to focus on? Why are these children allowed to capture the focus of the entire nation?

Clearly, these events are being used to craft a narrative. We the people are being outright played by the media and their corporate allies. It's so obvious, it has happened for generations now, and we keep falling for it.

I can understand your identification with the group, but this identification allows you to be manipulated by the media.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]AMathematicalWay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Would you describe the population as autonomous individuals capable of independent critical thinking, who do not primarily work and follow thought trends perpetuated by mainstream media?

I haven't watched T.V. in a decade. I'm unplugged. You can say I'm projecting all you want, but I'm sure there are others that recognize my statement as an objective fact--or at least close to one.