"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." -A.Huxley

He read, from an ex-pat cafe in Morocco, undoing his capacity to think with a ball of hashish the size of of a pocket watch-

@19:00 some great excerpts from a talk from John Trudell. Meaty!

It bothers me when people sum up human nature like they have all the answers. They don't, humans have seemingly endless capacities and they're quite unpredictable. We're not even close to being able to understand exactly why a bee acts in the way that it does, so why would we think we could easily analyze a human, or a whole human society?

@Yogi
thats the thing though.
we are incredibly predictable.
otherwise marketing and propaganda would not be so effective.

no one person is immune.
it takes vigilance to decode the invisible strings and taken in a case by case i would agree that as individuals we do have unpredictable variables.
but in groups?
we are like sheep to the slaughter.

the levers of control manipulate the visceral while ignoring the cerebral.

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