Simplest answer is "What the powers that be want you to think is reality." They do this primarily thru the media - TeeVee, commercials, the internet, movies, magazines, etc. They set up a construct, especially I think, thru TeeVee commercials that teach us what the good life is, or should be. For instance I noticed that almost immediately following the George Floyd tragedy, is if they had them all cued up, there rapidly appeared ads with lots of interracial couples, lots of rich or middle class black folk or indeterminate people of color. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but the ratios are way skewed. Like suddenly blacks make up 40% of the US population. It's probably just virtue-signaling on the part of "Madison Avenue" but I can't help but notice it whenever I watch. It is subtle until you notice it. Then, it's like they are hitting you over the head with propaganda on the "reality of America".
Ouch. Sounds worse than leprosy (HansenтАЩs Disease), the bacterial scourge of yore thatтАЩs still with us yet quite manageable with timely and proper medical interventions. No need, in other words, to wander about the streets chumming for stale bagels and spare change, all the while exposing oneself to taunts of тАЬunclean...unclean.тАЭ
In any event, thatтАЩs my opinion. First thing we do, letтАЩs kill all the middle managers?
What we have is Fascism with American characteristics. They won't go to the jackboot unless their Narrative Matrix unravels before too many eyes.
What is a "narrative matrix?"
Simplest answer is "What the powers that be want you to think is reality." They do this primarily thru the media - TeeVee, commercials, the internet, movies, magazines, etc. They set up a construct, especially I think, thru TeeVee commercials that teach us what the good life is, or should be. For instance I noticed that almost immediately following the George Floyd tragedy, is if they had them all cued up, there rapidly appeared ads with lots of interracial couples, lots of rich or middle class black folk or indeterminate people of color. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but the ratios are way skewed. Like suddenly blacks make up 40% of the US population. It's probably just virtue-signaling on the part of "Madison Avenue" but I can't help but notice it whenever I watch. It is subtle until you notice it. Then, it's like they are hitting you over the head with propaganda on the "reality of America".
It's called capitalism and there's nothing subtle about capitalism.
Ouch. Sounds worse than leprosy (HansenтАЩs Disease), the bacterial scourge of yore thatтАЩs still with us yet quite manageable with timely and proper medical interventions. No need, in other words, to wander about the streets chumming for stale bagels and spare change, all the while exposing oneself to taunts of тАЬunclean...unclean.тАЭ
In any event, thatтАЩs my opinion. First thing we do, letтАЩs kill all the middle managers?