• chortle_tortle@mander.xyz
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      6 days ago

      Every holy book says its followers are god’s bestest people, it’s just literally just money, you’re being an idiot.

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        Not Crom. Crom doesn’t give a shit about people. His only message is “You’re on your own. Deal with it.”

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      Not that I particularly understand or agree with your point about his name or the elephant in the room, or even that we’re “conditioned.”

      But I think there’s some general truth to the conditioning. I feel like spectacle driven conditioning is an organic social phenomenon that comes into play when game theory crosses heirs with macro psychology. Capitalism made the world’s most aggressively imperialistic empire for good reason, after all. Probably not because that was the intention, but because of the organic conditioning it produces.

      Furthermore, I think people can take advantage of that fact. It surely can appear like orchestrated, intentional conditioning. But I’m doubtful. We need to understand psychology better.