Misconception of how authoritarian governments work. Restaurants, parks, bars, etc all keep existing and working as normal. You have shows and music and books still. You even have internet and electronic devices. The difference is that you have to toe the line in what you say. The art is all controlled by the gorvernment and the internet is firewalled to be local only. If you are a very conformist person you might not even notice at all that you live in an authoritarian government. The average guy who wakes up, goes to work, gets home watches tv and during the weekend watches sports, maybe goes out with the family; the kind that never quite knows what’s going on in the economy or politics, he only knows things are expensive or cheap and that’s the extent of his capacity for political judgement; would downright be ok with the authoritarian government because he doesn’t realize that it is, and he doesn’t feel a difference whether it is or not.
Oh yea I’m not a conformist, probably why the way I am.
I always go poking around in places mainsteam media doesn’t expect me to. Digging around Tor and “Dark Web”, researching about custom operating systems that nobody actually use. Etc…
As a kid, when I looked at media, and… you know how media always portrays men as “strong” and women as if they always need to be saved by the hero, who is always a man… like you know what I’m talking about? The gender stereotypes. When I was a kid, I was just like: but why can’t a woman save the man from the villains like I always have internal thoughts that conflicted with society. I always have questions about everything, curiosity forces me to try and gather more information than what is fed by the system.
And I especially just hate loud music, parties, festivals, or otherwise holiday celebrations, too much stress.
I wonder, do philosophers typically have friends, or are they just loners?
Edit: Also, you kinda described my parents. Total Apathy. They say: “trump was fine first term, there’s nothing to worry about” lmfao. And for context, we are non-white immigrants and our former country was an authoritarian one, but they didn’t care about that either.
Misconception of how authoritarian governments work. Restaurants, parks, bars, etc all keep existing and working as normal. You have shows and music and books still. You even have internet and electronic devices. The difference is that you have to toe the line in what you say. The art is all controlled by the gorvernment and the internet is firewalled to be local only. If you are a very conformist person you might not even notice at all that you live in an authoritarian government. The average guy who wakes up, goes to work, gets home watches tv and during the weekend watches sports, maybe goes out with the family; the kind that never quite knows what’s going on in the economy or politics, he only knows things are expensive or cheap and that’s the extent of his capacity for political judgement; would downright be ok with the authoritarian government because he doesn’t realize that it is, and he doesn’t feel a difference whether it is or not.
Apathy is the real enemy of democracy.
Oh yea I’m not a conformist, probably why the way I am.
I always go poking around in places mainsteam media doesn’t expect me to. Digging around Tor and “Dark Web”, researching about custom operating systems that nobody actually use. Etc…
As a kid, when I looked at media, and… you know how media always portrays men as “strong” and women as if they always need to be saved by the hero, who is always a man… like you know what I’m talking about? The gender stereotypes. When I was a kid, I was just like: but why can’t a woman save the man from the villains like I always have internal thoughts that conflicted with society. I always have questions about everything, curiosity forces me to try and gather more information than what is fed by the system.
And I especially just hate loud music, parties, festivals, or otherwise holiday celebrations, too much stress.
I wonder, do philosophers typically have friends, or are they just loners?
Edit: Also, you kinda described my parents. Total Apathy. They say: “trump was fine first term, there’s nothing to worry about” lmfao. And for context, we are non-white immigrants and our former country was an authoritarian one, but they didn’t care about that either.