• @lordnikon
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    619 days ago

    It’s engineered into society by power people. if you are too busy looking down on someone. You won’t notice them robbing you blind.

      • the post of tom joad
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        819 days ago

        I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

        -Lyndon B. Johnson

    • @shalafi
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      19 days ago

      engineered into society by power people

      C’mon man! That’s conspiracy thinking if I ever heard it. The truth is far simpler, and scarier, people are people just being people. And there are a lot of people trying to navigate a wildly complex world we didn’t evolve for, one that’s changing at breakneck speed. We almost have to boil our experiences down into more digestible chunks to make sense of it.

      This article is so old that the formatting’s been trashed, but I think you can parse the order of the text with a little effort. Few things I’ve ever read gave me a wider view of the world. It was so important to me I saved a PDF a few years back. If you don’t like the humor, fuck it, there’s still a strong message.

      https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

      While we’re at it, here’s another game changer from the same author. I’ve thought nn this, and observed it, for nearly a decade.

      https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about