• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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    1 day ago

    So this is the new version of

    pitchforks vs torches

    ?

    And that’s how chemically lobotomised many have become, that that’s sufficient to trick them?

    We are in a lot of trouble. Dangerous idiots abound.

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      23 hours ago

      Oh you don’t need to fight them, you just need to corner them into working jobs that drain all their mental and physical energy and barely pay them enough to survive.

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      1 day ago

      One human is smart while a lot of humans are mere herd animals. So called group thinking. Happens in social media too btw.

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        24 hours ago

        Mattias Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, is handy for understanding how this happens.