But that’s where complacency and escapism becomes a large tool against the numbers. Its much too hard to get up and revolt when their favorite show is going to be on at 8 or X streaming service got a new movie. Only a fraction get up to protest when the rest sit back back and mumble under their breaths to their screens.
We need a major fuckup to get them off their couches, you know, something like policing the internet, or crashing the market and causing disgusting inflation rates. Oh wait. Its a shame that we’ve waited until things got this bad.
But that’s where complacency and escapism becomes a large tool against the numbers. Its much too hard to get up and revolt when their favorite show is going to be on at 8 or X streaming service got a new movie. Only a fraction get up to protest when the rest sit back back and mumble under their breaths to their screens.
We need a major fuckup to get them off their couches, you know, something like policing the internet, or crashing the market and causing disgusting inflation rates. Oh wait. Its a shame that we’ve waited until things got this bad.
Agree. People were so concerned about 1984 that they didn’t see Brave New World creeping up on us.
How you crack the complacency is beyond me.
Cracking the code is:
if (complacency > annoyances) { sleep(); } else { riot(); }People are the worst. Agriculture was a mistake. If I have a time machine I’d go back and kick that fucker tiktaalik back into the ocean.
I’m sure you’re joking, but actually I’m reading a very interesting book about this topic called “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.”
It’s really concerned with freedom, and disputes the idea that the lack thereof is inherently tied to agriculture.
Agriculture made more humans. More humans is always trouble.
(But it is a really incredible book, as are all of Graeber’s work. If you like it you should read Debt: The First 5,000 Years)