"Man is an inherently social creature. This byproduct of evolution means that his instinct is to care about his clan, be it his family, his peer group, or his class. Therefore, he can be manipulated. His desires and motives can be changed. This fragile psychology means man can be trained to prioritize anything. For centuries we have raised men to care and fight for their countries. They have been taught that authority is a social good, that leaders should be trusted. If we train men, through education, through marketing, they will do anything they are told to do. Man must first be informed of what he needs. If he can be shown that his base needs revolve around feeling and emotional impulse, that happiness and social status is based on what he acquires, he can be sold anything. If you want to sell automobiles, clothing, cigarettes, any novelty, you must convince him that he would die without them."
- Edward Bernays, 1916
I was locked out of my account for 8 hours. I tried to go back on and it just showed the "timeout" error. Later I tried to get back on kolektiva, but it said it didn't exist when I looked it up, and I was afraid kolektiva was gone for good. Luckily I was just now able to get back, and everything seems to be fine for now. I wish the best for this server.
P.S: I can only assume this has something to do with the kolektiva server raid that happened a couple of weeks ago.
@5a73c83e Despite the fact that black people experience police harassment and brutality much more than white people, white people also obviously experience it too, just to a lesser extent. I don't think it's wise to sum up the problem of the police to a completely one-sided racial issue (although obviously, again, black people suffer much more than white people) because the police is the problem of the entire working class.
@095e5c5b I have nothing against guillotine jokes and memes, but it would be much better to make those jokes and memes without using the image of a mass murdering dictator, unless the joke/meme is about guillotining Mao.
"We cry shame on the feudal Baron who forbade The peasant to turn a cold of Earth unless he surrendered to his Lord a fourth of his crop. We call those the barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger."
Peter Kropotkin, "The Conquest of Bread "
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