I didn't know you have a site. Do you have an RSS feed I can add to my reader? .. didn't see one in the code.
:agummythink: I get what you're saying in your post. I think I felt that way for a long time. I've written some older posts like "Vote for Nobody" and "Does Voting make a Difference?" and I had this sign up in my lawn back in the early 2000s (it got stolen).
As I get older, I'm not anti-state. All states are corrurpt. But States are also the way societies organize to give us so much of the technology that we have today. I do think minimizing that corruption to as reasonable amount as possible is important.
I do appreciate America, as least with the foundation that has tried to allow for speaking out against that state. It hasn't always been held true. There have been judges who have sided against the 1st amendment. But in all the places I've lived, I still think it's held up better than a lot of other developed nations. We know Bush/Cheney et. al. blew up the towers and we can say that openly. In NZ, you distribute a video of the Christchurch shooting and it can be 7 years in prison. We don't even need to start with Canada recently...
I still respect people like James Corbett and Media Monarchy; people who are very anti-state and I think they have incredible analysis .. but as I get older, I see the benefit of a state, but also the need to keep that state in constant check.
It was the wrong people. They had everyone who believed in the nation and that the laws worked. Now if they had let in the 2016 inauguration protestors :agummypopcorn:
maybe NPC or Normie is more appropriate then ... or cowards? I bet that 66% can be split ... after all in Milgram, a lot of people got sweaty and nervous .. but felt like there were no other options ... just freezing up (like the Trolly problem) wasn't an option, you either went along or said no ... the ones who went along, but knew it was wrong were cowards ... and the ones that went along without question were just either really dumb .. or really psycho.
I don't think it has anything to do with her age ... she's only 7 years older than me ... there are "boomers" and "zoomers" I know that can critically think and don't trust half the shit they see beamed into their eyeballs .. and I've met people older and younger who fully buy everything they see on Google/Facebook/the TV.
I bet even if you broke it all down by age group, the split would always be around 30%/60% ... same as the Stanley Milgram experiment and various conformity experiments.
~33% typically know how to say no and to see more solutions than the ones presented. ~66% go along with everything.
and I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about it. When that balance gets out of whack society tends to break apart .. horrifically. I think the 33/66 split is a naturally occurring phenomenon that's required to keep society cohesive. If everyone challenged everything without consequence, we'd have nothing of what we have today. It's the same with cells inside your own body and auto-immune disorders.
If the 66% latch onto a religion or ideology or morality that's good for their society, it can be a very good thing (keeping in mind it's like 10%~15% that's presenting the leading ideology ... the rest of the cells in your body follow the brain; when they don't, you get Lupis and MS and can't walk). When they don't, you get Mao, the CCP, WW2, ... all the fun stuff.
That whole outage was super weird. There was a single high-tier ISP that stopped routing. It felt very random where you could and couldn't get to Kiwifarm from (my local ISP could not, my VM in Chicago could, people I knew in Texas and Pennsylvanian could). A lot of people just sent really basic, ignorant sounding support requests to their ISPs, "hey I can't get to this IP subnet for some reason, do you know what's going on?" and I think they eventually backed off.