Enough people misunderstood this post that I thought I’d clarify further. A couple points. 1. I’m aware the mosquito thing is real. 2. I’m not condescending to the people that work at the grocery store. The employees aren’t the problem. Honest people, doing honest work, locked into a world where they’re being fed a firehose of anxiety-inducing “esoteric knowledge” that they can’t act on in any meaningful way. That was the moment that hit me: Who does this actually serve? Because it’s not serving them. A person making $20 an hour doesn’t have the structural power to stop Bill Gates, halt bioengineered mosquitoes, or dismantle the pharmaceutical industry. So why is this the information they’re flooded with? It seems like a lot of the information that hits our screens is being handed out like candy. Not to awaken people, but to distract them. To simulate power and insight without providing any. It gives the illusion of control like “I know what’s going on” while keeping everyone emotionally revved up and politically paralyzed. That’s what I meant by “the new opiate of the masses.” It’s not about them. It’s about what they’re being sold. And yeah, the ground beef was still $5.49 a pound. Which is a pretty good deal View quoted note →

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Whether they're trying to get you to buy something or believe something, the media has always been that way, no? Also $20 for working at a grocery store? I remember when $8 was a lot. Heh
Haha I don’t but sometimes I forget that about half of everyone on nostr is autistic and I have to spell things out for them.
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Ryan Reynolds 5 months ago
$4.35, in 1996. Union shop. Got our only raise when minimum wage went up to $4.50 😂 Beer money for high schoolers, though. Ans smokes were $2/pack
Some of the conspiracy theories that have been approved for mass consumption are really just taking the opposite side of unbelievably blatant lies. Like the connection between the jab and heart issues... like we all watched how many professional athletes literally collapse and some just die on live TV on the field?
It's funny you mention the 'illusion of control'. This is exactly what voting and especially the #Trump and #Musk psyop is.
That’s actually what’s called manufactured consent. It’s a slightly different thing.
I think it is also our own fault. People are drawn to gossip. Information that is shocking or sexy but not actionable. Because actionable information is hard work. This is what sells, so this is what is sold.
Im right with you. Let slip a few unbelievable but real conspiracies to get the crazies identified and the normies prepped to be defensive against the ideas. All the while run the world through the most nefarious practices that most people could never even dream of and would make all of us sick to know about.
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This is all correct. It s all a distraction spoon fed to us when we start getting close to something important. For example, when we actually started talking about this ridiculous spending bill and the debt, that is when the mass deportations picked up to trigger some nice violent riots in order to shift the conversation. But, I think certain people are more susceptible. Seems like the people that always have the latest intel on the most nefarious and outlandish “thing” just like to seem smart. Look what I know that you don’t know! I am very susceptible to it myself. But it takes self awareness and nuance. Just because one “conspiracy theory“ turns out to be dead on, it doesn’t mean they all are.
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Mr Meadow 5 months ago
All true BUT it’s part of the process of deprogramming oneself to begin to question everything. This leads to lots of churn is generally unproductive but necessary.
There are no local farms man. It’s the desert, nothing grows. Everything is shipped in from California. Best butcher shop is probably Whole Foods.
Bummer. I see that they have "100% pasture-raised Angus beef" i am skeptical as to the true quality. But I get your situation now. Maybe you can find one that can ship to you? Trader Joes gets their "meat" from the same place as the big box supermarkets which truly suck. Hell ill send you some steaks from my local farm bruvna.
There is a concept known as the 'paradox of choice' whereby an abundance of options actually paralyses a person, because they fear making the wrong choice. An abundance of information might be similar. Not fear of making a wrong choice, but not knowing what is worth looking at.
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R 5 months ago
The most common phrase in the Bible is; do not fear. Thus, the fire hose of anxiety producing knowledge comes from and serves those opposed to God.
Need that third option Orange party. The arguments you are told to have are pretty meaningless. Your money is losing value, all the problems are related to that issue.
Realizing the problem is the first step to solving it. While there's no immediate actionable step, I think it lies somewhere in using Bitcoin and building local communities in order to opt out of fiat politics. Being open minded about how power being misused is indicative of being open minded towards solutions, and possibly even searching for how one can be a part of them. This is 100x times better than believing the legacy media headlines one reads, which is still a huge problem and far closer to the opiate of the masses than not believing them is.
It's the same issue I have with Alex Jones. He's spreading unproductive fear & anxiety for a buck. Nobody benefits from this.
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⚡️🚨 WATCH - Alex Jones says bad actors inside the United States are preparing to release a biological weapon on the American people on July 4th. He claims they plan to blame Russia and China, then ultimately point the finger at Trump for pulling out of the World Health Organization. He says a table-top exercise held last year simulated a bio-attack tied to Russia and China set for July 4th 2025.
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You can't even control your next heartbeat. Control has always been an illusion, and knowledge has always been esoteric. It's exclusively for those who create it. As you said, you can just do things …ooor waste your lifetime chasing mental mirages, making up shit. Stir up shit or make up shit. The choice is ours, and I guess both can be fun.