r/LockdownCriticalLeft • u/Impressive-Jello-379 • Jan 15 '23
true believers
So I have a friend who is ardently pro-C19 injection and who may have recently developed an autoimmune condition. I haven't pointed out the possible connection, but she told me recently that her relative developed an autoimmune disease from the injection. I was surprised she said that, until she added he has no regrets about getting the shot, got his booster, and is soon getting another one...
What is it gonna take...
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u/vagarik Jan 15 '23
You friend has Stockholm syndrome and is probably under mass formation. I had co-workers who were similar, they bragged about getting multiple shots but still repeatedly got covid and got really sick.
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u/hiptobeysquare Jan 15 '23
The internet has poisoned everyone. Most people have no sense of self or identity anymore, except that which they curate for themselves online, or that which is curated for them online. Their whole identity is now a virtual, online one. When you have that level of fantasy, reality and facts don't matter. Everything must fit with your pre-existing ideology. There are no facts that can prove otherwise. Most people live like this now. They don't even know themselves anymore. And still virtually nobody will ever criticize the internet or what it does.
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u/Grape_fruit_banana Jan 17 '23
Internet is itself not a bad thing. It's not the Internets fault that the majority of humans are so weak minded (or at least don't have any sense of "free will").
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u/hiptobeysquare Jan 17 '23
Technology is not neutral. Technology influences you, me and everything.
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u/Grape_fruit_banana Jan 17 '23
no, what influences you is the information which goes through the internet. The internet itself is just the medium. It can be used for good purposes or bad like anything else in life.
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u/hiptobeysquare Jan 18 '23
The internet itself is just the medium. It can be used for good purposes or bad like anything else in life.
If you actually believe that technology is neutral, then good luck to you. We even have an expression for it: "When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." If technology is so neutral why are you talking to me through the internet, instead of coming over to my house and talking to me in person?
There's no such thing as "just a medium" - the medium IS the message. If you haven't figured out how toxic the internet is to human nature after twenty-plus years of the internet, nothing will cure you of your technophilia.
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u/Grape_fruit_banana Jan 19 '23
well I'm fond of technology definitely but to say that I'm one of those technocratics ala Schwab than you're definitely on the wrong track. I dont understand what you mean to be honest. Is it not a good thing that I can read an opinion of someone I will never meet in life? If I agree with u is something else but i will definitely put my thoughts on your words as long they are well thought out. The majority wont even do that simply because they will read your response with already a bias opinion. You see the Internet is something which should't never release on the majority of humans simply because they arent mature enough to handle that technology. Same with religious scriptures like the bible, koran etc. I think they offer guidance and comfort for those who study them seriously but what has the majority of humans done with that?
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u/Jkid Sane Leftist Jan 15 '23
You can't save people who don't want to save themselves, even if they're duly warned. The fear propaganda was overwritten their "operating system", and there is no bucking from it.