10 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 10 Oct 2023 \ parent \ on: How do you IDENTIFY and AVOID bulls*** distractions? meta
I used to assume that those in the highest positions had honorable intentions. They couldn't have gotten to the top being bad, right?
That's the easiest idea to cope with.
As I grew, reality simply just set in -- I couldn't unsee the constant, deliberate, intentional, blatant, OBVIOUS gaslighting taking place every. single. day.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 10 Oct 2023
Exactly. We are conditioned to think this. Its how society works. When you begin to understand incentives and just how crazy it is for anyone to have the kind of power these people have you realize they have to be sociopaths to even want these positions of power. When you see how they could just tell people the truth about why they go to war but choose to lie and deceive the public you begin to realize how big of a farce it all is.
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