If you a plebeian in modern day America, you don't know you're a plebeian.
Serfdom is what most of us aspire to. Indentured servitude: the arrangement you have with a bank where the bank lets you pretend to own a house. A mortgage.
But the smart thing the rich people did is pit the plebeians against each other. Red team, blue team.
Except that's not actually the truth.
The truth is there is the side of universities and journalslurs, and the side that believes a lie whose construction is fascist.
So there is a literal pleb-tier opinion.
You know what we should do is adopt the Chinese ways of Confucianism.
You should take lots of tests, and the people who pass those tests should be made part of a bureaucracy.
Because the people who fear China have this secret fear, the same secret fear of those who faced the real Communists. Not this hybrid shit. The Cold War is over.
"Are they better than us?" By being more brutal and authoritarian in their crackdown on freedom of expression, are they gaining an edge?
You have to remember. There was a time America looked up at the sky and saw Russia there first. The moon race wasn't a game of marbles and skittles. It was a statement. (A victory statement.)
Ultimately governments coalesce into a small group of people who make decisions on behalf of everyone else, usually, in a great deal of power transfers, but just taking power.
We had been spared the cycle by our political system until the boomers shit the bed.
The power to craft messages with a political bent is given to those who watch politics with a critical eye and a truthful mindset. Even if the truth is unflattering.
The right three words can do a lot. OCCUPY WALL STREET. BLACK LIVES MATTER.
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AHHHHH GOTTEM. Cope harder.
Look at this fricking idiot who wants children to learn things and is all butthurt when pencil pushers stuff the ching chong nerds in lockers. I bet you're the kind of "gifted" student who took AP calc in highschool and then took a higher level math in college instead of retaking calc for an "easy A", aren't you four-eyes. What a fricking chump, probably chose classes based on the content in them instead of how easy the professor was rated.
Imagine living in 2021 and still having a working moral compass. Your life must be awful.
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