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All war movies are predictive programming(self)
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I know that seems odd to say because usually predictive programming refers to new ways they want to shape society. It gives us context for a setting they want to create that humanity doesn't have familiarity with from it's history, so we don't reject the change simply from our inability to process in that new context.

But war is something humanity has done before so how can it be predictive programming? People's history is what you tell them it is, even if it's accurate. People's sense of history depends on what you highlight. Most Americans don't know that Piere Chastain helped settle the Monacan frontier of Virginia. It's just not what they know. Even near history. There is plenty that has happened in the last 60 years that Americans don't know because it isn't important for maintaining their understanding how how war works.

If you took a population of people in two countries and neither had been especially introduced to the concept of war and you told them we are going to war with each other and this is what's involved (since you all are unfamiliar), they would think that was retarded/insane. It wouldn't be 5% who who thought that. It would be 95% who thought that. They would rather talk it out or ditch their leadership entirely before doing such a strange and obviously unnecessary idea.

But because everyone knows what war is, thanks to the movies and history class, the normative middle who will never question or analyze anything familiar just say, "Oh, we're doing the war thing. Ok." Then those of us who are actually thinking get to sound like the insane ones for questioning the most insane thing humanity does. If you were to suggest that we just kill our leadership instead because its at least on the same scale or less insane and has a more reasonable outcome, in the natural population that doesn't have war presented to it always has a good chance to agree with you. Without context their only option is to think it out, apply reason, and it just adds up.

But the war exposed population would think you are off your rocker and have a dangerous levels of mental derangement. All for suggesting a solution any reasonable person would come to if they were thinking about it fresh.

Like what if we killed our leadership, and they killed their leadership, and then we didn't mutually destroy our lives. That would be a viable consideration equal to actually doing this just as extreme and absurd war thing.

IDK, maybe we need our own hollywood where we normalize the idea that if someone suggests war you just shoot them no matter who they are? Apparently if people see it enough they won't think it's unhinged because apparently it works for something as unhinged as us all committing mass murder at each other.

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

I'd go farther: All corporate media is establishment enforcement programming. Maintain the status quo, perhaps with minor tweaks and nudges across they years and decades.

You go to church once a week for an hour of brainwashing to make you repent for the previous week of sin, then you feel better.

Television is a daily ritual of brainwashing about authority that lasts hours - all about fair justice, righteous authority, effective democracy, police, lawyers, military, agents, etc - all working well for the common good (the very opposite of reality under the mafia corporatocracy). Even a comedy featuring an abusive CIA agent (that should outrage viewers) will never question the foundational premise that they have power and rights to do whatever because "muh authoritay".

You never see a baker, plumber, or regular people doing regular things - unless it's to undermine the stability of family relationships. Besides trends in opinions, ethics, and morality - let's also not forget about the influence of passing fashions, products, and overt and subliminal advertising for the almighty consumer culture that underpins our ephemeral wanting Western society where the feeble minded find inklings of meaning and purpose in what they own rather than what they do. All insulated from the real horrors of global exploitation and war that effortlessly brought them the conveniences they take for granted.

All this was preempted by the "education system" imprisoning children who had to line up for no reason other than the say-so of the authoritarian teachers.

Badges? We don't need no stinkin badges.

Like what if we killed our leadership, and they killed their leadership, and then we didn't mutually destroy our lives.

Don't recruit me in service, because I've thought of this countless times. But better than actually killing the clowns in clown uniforms, is to expose the clowns for who they are and make fun of their silly ideas. We need bulletproof parodies and counter-propaganda to ridicule their nonsense and teach truths about the fallacies of inauthentic unearned "leadership".

IDK, maybe we need our own hollywood

YES!!!

Maybe build on this: https://projex.wiki/wiki/Fringe_Deplorables_Web_Ring

if someone suggests war you just shoot them

Yes, but no. It would make a good funny skit, but also more worthy of teaching is the slippery slope of "justified violence" and/or all of the paradoxes of life - including means vs. end, and using non-violence vs. the monopoly on violence.

If there were easy solutions I suspect we'd be employing them already.

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