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Hobo's avatar

It's all so tiresome. I have to agree with you that most of the people I know and meet have either fallen into a deadly slumber or perhaps were never really conscious to begin with. On my charitable days I tend towards the later. Most people just want to belong and will believe the most ridiculous things to enable that. I sometimes feel like it must have been like to be an astute Roman in England after the legions had withdrawn. I can see everything slowly getting worse but its a slow slide.

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Bettina's avatar

Ohhh Alex - you express my frustration so well. I have been pondering on this for quite a while. I think my awakening has been along the same timeline as you. I've decided that it is actually a curse to have a combination of a high IQ (I did the Mensa test when I was a teenager, but it has probably declined a lot) + a high degree of natural scepticism. The consequence being that I feel I'm trapped on a planet of stupid, gullible people and I have to live with the consequences of their stupidity and gullibility and worry for the future of my children and grandchildren.

Definitely Brave New World territory, as you say. I don't even know any longer who the good guys are - if there are any. The bad ones - including the ones you refer to - advertise themselves, but if we can't save ourselves (because we have no power and nowhere to run to) - who can save us? Maybe there are some freedom-loving states within the union that will decide to secede from the union? (and accept refugees from the UK 🙏🏻); then those who are happy with their brave new world slavery can stay in their totalitarian hell holes and the rest of us can live free.

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