Hypocrisy as the Path to Success
Lincoln Stoller2023-12-03T02:13:14-08:00It takes a good sales pitch for new ideas to prosper. New ideas are pressured to pursue a path of happy promises.
It takes a good sales pitch for new ideas to prosper. New ideas are pressured to pursue a path of happy promises.
Human beings are pathological in the literal sense: personal logic is always distorted. But peoples’ logic is more distorted when they act in groups.
Marketing and sales are the mucosal lining of civilization’s intestines.
As long as people remain reductive, dependent, and uninformed, the shadow government that controls us will remain incomprehensible.
Teach people how systems operate by involving them in simulations. You can't teach anyone anything by telling them, they must see it with their own eyes.
Wall Street controls our financial lives; the media manipulates our minds. These systems cannot be changed from within.
Global enterprises not responsible to anyone outside of themselves, and not responsible on any time-frame except their own.
A convincing expose of corruption in the Vatican.
The movement of public opinion ultimately makes manifest the condition of the system. Worry is rebranded as hope. Threats become aliens, entertainment, or … food.
Elected leaders are not capable, or do not represent the national interest.
Stop looking for villains and start looking more closely at controlling institutions whose interests are being served.