I remember when I was a kid. I had free shelter and food, comixes, music, movies and videogames. Never had a thought about what is going on outside my kid's bubble. Now that I am grown up, it's unfuckingbelievable that the majority of my peers still have kiddies brains, all they care is to have food and shelter and can't fucking grasp what is really going on. They can't fucking understand anything apart of the same bullshit about taxes and unemployment rates. Stupid as fuck sheeple.
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qwop ago
That's the basics of keeping a society under control. Provide them with food, shelter, and a lot of distractions and entertainment. Boom - zombie nation. Even the Romans knew this. A little bread, circus, and an occasional gladiator fight kept things in check.
Smartech ago
Then came the jews and screwed the whole Roman empire, because the masses were illiterate imbeciles. Then again in Russian empire. I wonder how demented the elites must be to not understand something twice.
qwop ago
Haha. Interesting anecdote; as the Roman technology evolved, they started making both glass bottles and water viaducts lined with lead. So now the elite were drinking wine from lead bottles, and water from lead lined viaducts. It's quite likely the amount of lead they consumed made them stupid, and could have contributed to the fall of the empire.
Today the modern lead is vaccines, industrial factory food, GMOs, radiation, and pharmaceutical poisons. Ever wonder why everyone is getting so stupid...well...there's something to think about too.
heygeorge ago
Not really, bigly, not really, sometimes, which ones do you mean.
Are you sure there is a difference currently?