the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
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I know that, at the end of the day, everything comes back to means of social control for economic benefit.
But I don't think these dorks are really seeing that far ahead. They think they've got evidence of aliens. And in a country where they're totally alienated from their peers, everything they see and hear is filtered through digital media manipulation, and we're running into a Clark's Law of advanced technology that people are too uneducated to understand fully... how can we even argue otherwise?
How is Aliens Are Real! any more or less credible than Iraq Has WMDs or Uighur Genocide? Its all just in the ether as news headlines that we consume from 3rd parties.
Even just having a materialist conversation is hard because how do you have a discussion about material history when so much of that discussion is also dictated by what we read in books, watch on TV, and listen to on the radio? How the fuck do you talk about Lenin or Kissinger when these people are ultimately just historical figures that exist as footprints in a record outside our control?