Capitalism Rewards Sociopathy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin johnstone!
(2021-05-01 at 23:07:18 )

Capitalism Rewards Sociopathy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin johnstone!

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You can tell how backwards our society is by how much easier it is to thrive in it as a sociopath than if you have any other serious mental disorder.

If instead of money our society valued connection, emotional intelligence and empathy, people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or other severe psychological issues would get all the support and care they need, while sociopaths would flounder.

It would be a handicap instead of an advantage, because attributes like compassion and vulnerability would be valued instead of the willingness to do whatever it takes to get to the top no matter who it hurts.

A highly emotionally conscious world is what we should all want, since most of our worlds problems are ultimately due to the fact that people without functioning empathy centers in their brains get to the top in the way we have things set up now. If we become deeply caring and healthy, sociopaths will not be elevated.

Capitalism is like polyamory; sure it might work okay for some people, but generally the ones who reap the most rewards from it are those who do not care about other peoples feelings.

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Joe Biden was appointed to get things back to normal, but there can be no "back to normal" for a dying empire in a rapidly shifting global paradigm.

You can tell by how hard they are having to work to spin this desperate, ridiculous clusterf-ck as a normal presidency.

All the fangirling over Jen Psaki is getting really gross. She is supposed to be charismatic you dopes; she is responsible for managing the perception of an entire empire. The worlds most destructive government having skilled perception management is a bad thing, not a good thing.

United States presidents always get praise for the small smattering of half-decent things they do, but no blame for the far, far greater mountain of evil things the United States empire does during their presidency. People look at the everyday butchery and oppression of the empire as normal, required stuff.

When you try to inquire as to who is to blame for all the everyday evils of empire, the wars, sanctions, oppression, exploitation, propaganda, authoritarianism and ecocide, you can not get any straight answers.

It is widely thought of as something that kind of happens magically, by itself.

And that is just so revealing, for a civilization which prides itself on its respect for the individual to refuse to place any blame on any individuals responsible for the worst crimes being committed on our planet right now.

Individualism is for the little people.

The world is not f-cked up because humans are innately f-cked up, the world is f-cked up because a few elite humans are f-cked up and propagandize the rest of us into consenting to a f-cked up world.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) April 29, 2021

It is hard to blame people for believing dumb conspiracy theories about the powerful, considering the fact that proven conspiracies by the powerful are usually a lot worse. The conspiracy of the United States power alliance to slaughter children in Yemen and lie about it is far worse than all the QAnon stuff, for example.

Corporate media propaganda is another example.

Wealthy elites and government agencies are indeed conspiring to manipulate the thoughts of the entire population; this is a fact that has been studied and documented for decades.

It happens in a mundane way, but it is a huge, creepy conspiracy.

I mean, just think about it: powerful elites are engaging in mass-scale mind control to justify murder and genocide around the world.

This is a fact.

The only reason it does not give people the thrill of 5G nanobot mind control conspiracies or whatever is because we are used to it.

If everyone could just truly see the empire and what it does with fresh eyes, just the verified facts that we know about, they would tear it all down bolt by bolt.

That is why so much energy gets poured into ensuring that they do not see it.

People keep waiting for a big reveal, for some investigative journalist or leak to expose the abusive dynamics of the powerful.

Thing is, that already happened: there has enough public evidence already. It is just that people can not see it with fresh eyes.

That is what we need to change.

The big reveal already happened.

If there was some massive WikiLeaks drop or whatever ripping the veil off all the ugliest secrets of the empire, we would still have what we have now: a propagandized populace ignoring all the mountains of evidence for horrific acts of the powerful.

The problem is not getting the information, the problem is getting people to actually look at it.

That is what I place my emphasis on: finding new ways to get people to look with fresh eyes and really see the ugly monster that is right in front of their face.

Our priorities get skewed by the way the powerful think in global mass-scale terms while normal people do not.

Even well-intentioned people think police violence is more of a problem than war, or that lockdowns are more dangerous than brinkmanship with China, because it is something local that can affect them personally.

This is just a product of normal human psychology.

If I am a store clerk I am unaffected by things happening on the other side of the world, so I do not think about them.

If Iam a war profiteer or empire architect those dynamics affect my bottom line, so I do think about them.

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