Tag: mass control
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Supressing dissent in the age of Orwell
Totalitarian and autocratical regimes have a lot of experience with supressing dissent . I was born in the democratical Czechoslovakia (the nowadays Czech Republic). And people had a lot to say about how well the communists were good at oppressing dissidents and opposite opinions, stances and attitudes. However, the current Western world’s establishment, no matter…
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Why Marx’s Capital couldn’t be published or be influential nowadays
Karl Marx’s “Capital” is a work in the field of political economy and has been widely studied and influential since its publication. And its consequences besides academia and intellectual circles? Millions of extrajudicial killings, gulags, famine, and repressed freedom of speech, but also alleviating the negative attributes of capitalism: full employment, solid salaries, free healthcare,…
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The art of mass control and brainwashing. How people are impulsive
It’s so saddening how even really bright individuals are impulsive when it comes to the media and politics. A scandal breaks out. You would expect that the core will be rationally resolved with rational moves leading to the right conclusion (for example, widespread corruption, racial issues, gun issues, crony capitalism) no matter if the media…