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I may have missed something: what’s the issue with Blue Sky?
Facebook came along at the right time in Internet history to grab all the Boomer crackpots and monied groups.
Facebook has always been first and foremost an advertising platform, and they went where the money is. Some of that’s the automated algorithms, some of that is deliberate corporate informationeering.
I offer some thoughts on the decline and fall of the internet here, and I think it’s germane to this discussion: https://michaelhjenkins.substack.com/p/visions-of-a-post-apocalyptic-internet?r=26iex9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
“Imaginary numbers”? Sounds like that DC fuzzy math . . .
The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.
Everything is going according to plan.
It’s not a recent thing but there was a pretty serious resurgence of it around waitforit the turn of the millennia back in 1999/2000, with a followup in 2012 when we all thought the Mayan calendar was going to run out for some reason. My observation is that these events had a deeper impact on world thinking than I realized at the time.
As someone who’s been recycling since the early 1980s, the whole thing is heartbreaking.
As with our dentention centers on the US/Mexico border, we’ll only see select portions of this after they’ve “addressed the issues” innate to putting people in holding facilities.
I have long held a theory that so much of the superficial orthopraxy demanded by various activist movements is intentional and designed to disrupt or removed actual action.
How can we best get involved and support the cause?
With over a century of vocabulary and terminology around these kind of social issues, it does get confusing in a hurry. That’s why I try to stick to plain language and popular terms whenever possible.
Exactly. Everyone’s on the list, eventually.
Also called Millenarianism, it refers to the belief that a major change/end of an age/apocalypse is inbound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism
A lot of folks felt this way when the year 1999 rolled around and the “new millennium” began. For some it only got worse after September 11th 2001.
That may in part be an intended consequence. A permanent underclass benefits all mainstream politics in the US.
American politics have become a death cult. Millennialism had a much deeper impact on this country than I recognized at the time.
If you insist.
Wow. Thank you.