Diary of Anne Frank

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Personal Diary of Stephen Alfred Gutknecht.

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Advertising / Marketing / Public Relations / Edward Bernays Manipulation corrupts everything + anything. Diary of Anne Frank May 15, 2025 (lemm.ee)

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mass Mind Dread
Calm Before the 2nd Wave Storm

I don't doubt people won't resist, it is what they are resisting since year 2015 that has been what has driven me crazy. People resist goodness, people resist awakening to Kremlin Surkov / Surkovian methods - which means they resist the saturation of LOL mental exploits.

I made a mess of organization and writing, it is dreadful writing, the dreadful hopelessness of the "Nightmare of History" (Joyce). over at: https://lemm.ee/post/64048496

If this path continues, the total mockery in USA continues, there won't be time for feeling hopeless. It is a privilege to feel hopeless - even if it is just me having a "bad day". The people in Palestine since the newest war started October 7, 2023 - have to just keep marching on in non-stop dread. They won't have a public Internet to scream at, their voice isn't heard at all.

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Rick Roderick:

I mean, in a way, it’s like demanding of yourself that you do what you say… which you want to demand at least of your friends… that they do most of the time what they say they’ll do. But it’s certainly a good demand to place upon, ah, your society, its leaders, and so on. The trouble is – just as I have stated before – we are blocked. We are blocked in a way by an unprecedented structure of what I have called here… sort of… cynical, sceptical reason. To me it’s historically unmatched. I have never read or heard of a period like this one.

Now, I have read about many historical periods. But not one in which you can talk to young people the way you can at the college level today, and find out that they believe… nothing. Want… nothing. Hope… nothing. Expect… nothing. Dream… nothing. Desire… nothing. Push ’em far enough and they’ll say: “Yeah, I gotta get a job. Spent a lot of money at Duke.” That’s not what I am talking about. They hope nothing. Expect nothing. Dream nothing. Desire nothing.

And it is a fair question to ask whether a society that produces this reaction in its young is worthy of existence at all. It really is. It’s worth asking that. Whether it’s worth being here at all. And my criticism of this society couldn’t get more bitter than it is in that case. It couldn’t possibly be.