Because those in power want the average person in the delicate balance of being stuck in survival mode.
No time to protest because you've barely enough to scrape by, but not so poor that you've nothing left to lose to do much more than just protest.
Tech oligarchs own all corporate news media. They operate it on behalf of the republican party. The GOP was infected and then inhabited by the trump cult.
Because mentally diseased sadistic, psychopathic and sociopathic, malignant narcissists require the world to conform to their delusions of grandeur, and our entire society is built around worshipping them.
Capitalism is their theology.
In the old days, they just made up (or had scribes make up for them) religions, take what magical or supernatural ideas were floating around the society, and formalize them into a narrative that placed regional or city state rulers/tyrants as god kings, placed in their social roles by fantastical supernatural personalities/powers.
Court sponsored propoganda, legitamizing itself, describing and perscribing the bounds of thought and action for different people in that society.
We are still doing the same thing for the same kinds of people today, the theology is just more complex, often disgusing itself as secular.
Its still all a grand delusion, built and acted out to glorify violent psychopaths.
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The rich never want us to have a fulfilling life. That would mean less people to exploit.
They want to make us fight each other on every turn fo their infinite weatlh.
Because those in power want the average person in the delicate balance of being stuck in survival mode.
No time to protest because you've barely enough to scrape by, but not so poor that you've nothing left to lose to do much more than just protest.
Because the status quo is maintained by bad people and those that are afraid of any kind of chance.
100℅ this.
Tech oligarchs own all corporate news media. They operate it on behalf of the republican party. The GOP was infected and then inhabited by the trump cult.
That’s how. More or less.
The last part started with Reagan.
Because mentally diseased sadistic, psychopathic and sociopathic, malignant narcissists require the world to conform to their delusions of grandeur, and our entire society is built around worshipping them.
Capitalism is their theology.
In the old days, they just made up (or had scribes make up for them) religions, take what magical or supernatural ideas were floating around the society, and formalize them into a narrative that placed regional or city state rulers/tyrants as god kings, placed in their social roles by fantastical supernatural personalities/powers.
Court sponsored propoganda, legitamizing itself, describing and perscribing the bounds of thought and action for different people in that society.
We are still doing the same thing for the same kinds of people today, the theology is just more complex, often disgusing itself as secular.
Its still all a grand delusion, built and acted out to glorify violent psychopaths.