Re-quoted for truth. This site has come along way since 2007. Sadly RPF seems mostly onboard in believing the fake magic show provided by the elites wholly own propaganda arms as well as their nationally known pundits-podcasters, their friends and the chorus from countless useful idiots that believe it all.
Before anyone says that is snobbish again, well, I have been a useful idiot as well in my life including here. No one is immune to it from time to time.
Maybe we don't really believe it. Maybe we're just trying to get in, and get a slice, and dip back out before it all falls down.
Maybe it's like a card game, you know?
You can say the game is rigged. You can throw a fit. Flip the card table over. Swear on your life you'll never be back. You've got it figured out and you won't be a party to it.
But same time next weekend, they're playing cards again.
With or without you. What actually makes it worse is that the card game involves all of us whether we want it to or not (whether we think it does or not). [Even the agorists aren't safe, sorry guys]
Maybe a few others join you in boycotting card night, but it's never enough to stop it from continuing. Not even close.
Then one day someone goes back to the game and says, 'you know what, hell with it! I might actually win.' They probably won't. It's
very likely they won't. But they might. Their odds of winning are still higher than the guys who flipped over the card table and left, who aren't even playing at all (so they think). —So are their odds of losing but, they don't care anymore. They've been losing anyway. They're literally losing so much that they won't know the difference.
Are they really 'duped' if they go into it not expecting much? Isn't that what
really makes all the difference?
I think you and devil (and probably others) seem to think this is just a lapse in judgement, and it is—*if people take it too seriously. And I guess it gives you the opportunity to run around admonishing everyone for their transgressions. I'm out of feathers, or I'd give you one for your cap.
But things
have changed since 2007. At least for me, I don't see much benefit in wasting around with all this empirical knowledge about the inner-workings of the machine, ruminating into some dusty corner for all my thought's echos to hear.
It simply no longer becomes important for me to know what they're up to. I no longer need to know the details of who deals with who behind closed doors, because I approach it with the standard assumption that it is probably not what it seems, and no amount of further analyzation is going to reveal any true surprises. (and there again, even if it was revealed, what
exactly would you have me do with this knowledge? Most people don't seem to care. And if I brought it here to RPF, I can guarantee there would be someone who flipped it around and deconstructed it in some attempt to enlighten me that I've been swindled and bamboozled, and it's actually the opposite of what I interpreted . . . and we're back to square one.)
But trying to get
what I can get,
when I can get it,
while I can get it, I don't think meets the threshold of useful idiotry. That actually seems pretty smart at this point.