People are social creatures, and part of our behaviour is to join a group and defend it, even to the death. For patriotism.

This isn't news. It's been abused for millenia, and the folks sucking down blue pills like they're addicts actually are addicts. They're addicted to being slaves.

Those of us that aren't are in the minority. Morality has nothing to do with biology, and expecting people born to be slaves to 'wake up' and become human beings instead of cattle is unrealistic. It is more useful to consider ways in which the woke, but non-psychopathic, those who aren't interested in mastering hordes of slaves, might engender our freedom from the psychopaths.

Maybe when we do that, we'll be able to create a less predatory world for the born slaves. I'm not sure it's really our job, except that we need to keep that resource, the billions of slaves that want to be slaves, out of the hands of psychopaths.

That's a damn tall order, and I sure haven't got a master plan to get it done.

I'd like to see one though, with reasonable chances of success.

Voting isn't the way, and war sucks. What is the third way? I was kinda hoping it might form around crypto.

Still am.