What I've found is that the core problem is that the culture does not value rational thought. We live in a society where philosophy is taboo. I barely even heard the word until college. If you're at a party and someone is complaining about something, and you bring up the core causal factors instead of just being like, "Yeah, that sucks", people start looking for the door. They do not want to consider complex concepts. The problem is that a string of logic 50 steps long can be valid for 49 of those steps, but rooted in a false premise. If people are only willing to go 8 steps deep, or even 48 steps deep, they'll never see it, and there's an unwillingness to go that far because the culture is too dumbed-down to have that kind of patience. It's the "TL;DR" mentality. Most people would rather have abs than brains, and that's not by accident. There are people of great influence who want it that way, because if it ever changed, their whole wealth and power structure would come crashing down around them.
I agree with the overall sentiment. People hate thinking. Advertisement and marketing is structured around this fact.
But I also believe you can at least develop a minimum level of intellectual appetite if you want to claim a spot to the New world.
Culture is a tool for enslavement amongst a people without insight. As such, if we can find a way to “dance with the devil” and make thinking cool, that could be useful, at least during the transition. We need some really hot famous people to start speaking some real truth openly, instead of just telling everyone to “get out there and vote” Hahaha.
There's certainly a shift in culture right now. It was underground in 2016 and 2017, but now it's obvious.
It seems that way, but it's still baby steps right now. When you're on the ground talking to people, the concepts of self-ownership and true freedom are so foreign to them, you may as well be talking about alien cowboys coming down from the moon to save America. But, little by little, if we can get these ideas on the table and interject some sanity into the social discourse, sheer repetition will have its effect on many. We're basically spell-breakers... exorcists... so we're bound to see some heads spinning around.
Ideas and they way they are adopted follow the Pareto principle. By the time the general public(80%) catches on, the 20% will be already riding the next wave.
Very true, and thank God for that, because if I thought it would take even 51%, I’d probably start building a shack in the woods like the Hermit of Gully Lake.