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https://www.figu.org/ch/node/4642 https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/27/this-dystopia-would-never-be-accepted-without-extensive-indoctrination/
Dorothy:
June 16, 2025 - English Source Articles from FIGU Zeitzeichen Sonderausgabe Number 158
RandomRankedVoice:
This Dystopia Would Never Be Accepted Without Extensive Indoctrination
It takes a lot of education to make us this stupid.
Caitlin Johnstone
May 27, 2025
4 minutes
dystopia, gaza, propaganda, US empire, western civlization
Alice:
I am not a politically complicated person. I think genocide is bad. I think peace is good. I don’t think anyone should be struggling to survive in a civilization that is capable of providing for all. I think we should try to preserve the biosphere we all depend on for survival.
To me these are just obvious, common sense positions, no more remarkable or profound than believing I should refrain from slamming my nipple in a car door. I do not think these views should put me on the political fringe. I don’t think they should cause me to be seen as some kind of radical. It’s not outlandish that I hold these views, it’s outlandish that everyone else does not.
But that’s the kind of society we find ourselves in today. The obvious is framed as freakish while the freakish is presented as obvious. Health is framed as sickness while sickness is presented as health. The moderate is framed as extremism while extremism is presented as moderate.
We live in a twisted, backwards dystopia where everything is the opposite of the way it should be, and we’re conditioned to think it’s normal and acceptable. It’s not until some degree of insight dawns in you that you look around and realize you are living in the nightmare of a madman. Until then you spend your time here thinking, speaking, voting and behaving as though the demented status quo we are living under is the moderate and expected reality.
All our lives we are trained to believe this hellscape is the healthy and expected circumstanc
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Dorothy:
June 16, 2025 - English Source Articles from FIGU Zeitzeichen Sonderausgabe Number 158
RandomRankedVoice:
This Dystopia Would Never Be Accepted Without Extensive Indoctrination
It takes a lot of education to make us this stupid.
Caitlin Johnstone
May 27, 2025
4 minutes
dystopia, gaza, propaganda, US empire, western civlization
Alice:
I am not a politically complicated person. I think genocide is bad. I think peace is good. I don’t think anyone should be struggling to survive in a civilization that is capable of providing for all. I think we should try to preserve the biosphere we all depend on for survival.
To me these are just obvious, common sense positions, no more remarkable or profound than believing I should refrain from slamming my nipple in a car door. I do not think these views should put me on the political fringe. I don’t think they should cause me to be seen as some kind of radical. It’s not outlandish that I hold these views, it’s outlandish that everyone else does not.
But that’s the kind of society we find ourselves in today. The obvious is framed as freakish while the freakish is presented as obvious. Health is framed as sickness while sickness is presented as health. The moderate is framed as extremism while extremism is presented as moderate.
We live in a twisted, backwards dystopia where everything is the opposite of the way it should be, and we’re conditioned to think it’s normal and acceptable. It’s not until some degree of insight dawns in you that you look around and realize you are living in the nightmare of a madman. Until then you spend your time here thinking, speaking, voting and behaving as though the demented status quo we are living under is the moderate and expected reality.
All our lives we are trained to believe this hellscape is the healthy and expected circumstanc