Most people are totally unaware that The Patriot Act was largely written prior to 9/11.
The government just needed the people scared enough to allow it to be passed.
Imagine what’s already drafted right now that’s worse & how catastrophic an event would have to be to terrify the public enough to accept it.
You don’t want these people having the surveillance apparatus they are building.
@itispsychomath@JoshuaLisec Our new Foundational Myth will be told among the stars; coming back from the edge of extinction at the hands of the former apex predator tribe.
Boy meets girl, loses girl, regains girl.
Whites lost civilization, but we’re getting her back. And taking her to Andromeda.
You have to understand: “the other side” is not arguing in good faith. They are using the conversation operationally to impose their frame, redirect you, force you onto the defensive, manufacture concessions, and shape your perception.
You are presenting evidence. They are managing you.
That is the asymmetry. Your “correct argument” cannot defeat a person or tactic whose purpose is not to answer you, but to manipulate you.
My review of The Odyssee:
It’s an attempt to say some eternal truths pertinent to our time using this millenia-old story, but Nolan betrays his thirst for academy-awards, and their incumbent temporal glory, by kneeling to the prevailing apparent social message; including