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Somewhere along the road, the digital panopticon death camp we call our collective experience lost its way

Linguistic and rhetorical escalation matter because they lay the groundwork for material escalation. The values previously expressed may have been hollow but they still articulated boundaries and expected limits of state power Once those rhetorical boundaries are shredded, further erosion follows

We look We point The British tut The French shrug The Italians stare longily into the distance. There is a world where you come back but sorry USA you will need to apologise.

This country is beyond saving. The rise of God-Emperor Trump was 400 years in the making. Evil people invaded this land for its resources and wiped out its original inhabitants. Most of their history is forever lost to us. Every generation of colonists only grew progressively worse from there.

Our strategy for forming a more perfect union was "fake it until you make it" and now the people in charge want to destroy everything that faking it ever accomplished.

load bearing veneer

Were we always pretending, though?

That simple sentence sums up EXACTLY why we are where we are at today. It isn't okay to "go back". We must admit the horrible atrocities this country has committed and pledge to change our racism, sexism and fake Christian ideology. Right now we are reaping what we sowed.

Fake it* till you take it*, then it’s time to break it* *Functional Society

I was a bit imprecise here. What I meant is that the standards of behavior for the ruling class have always been more malleable or subject to debate. What was expected from the working class and the dispossessed has always been less negotiable or open to interpretation.

We never should have gotten rid of E Pluribus Unum.

Their idea of being "free" is having the ability to compel or impose constraints on anybody else while they themselves cannot be compelled by any combination of people of lower social rank to do anything whatsoever. Anything less is tyranny for them. The tyranny of not being a tyrant.

It's sort of like one generation makes up an aspirational lie one generation believes it another generation trys to make it real and we just said fuck it we don't even want to be better

I'm saving this, got a feeling it's going to get a lot of use

I prefer aspire, but since it's not all of us aspiring... Yeah. Pretend.

I don’t wanna know If you’re playing me Keep it on the low

is this proper english? 🤔