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I've got a confession to make: I'm often pissed off at the most propagandized. My intellectual self knows I should see them as victims and throw a little compassion their way, but damn, the shadows on the cave wall are so obviously shadows that there's no excuse to pretend otherwise. People being dumb on purpose piss me off.

If this is an indication I need to grow as a person, I can accept that. As it is, to me, these ghouls are accomplishing their goals with the most rickety lies imaginable. It would be nice if we at least put them to work a little. Or better yet, stop listening to them altogether.

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Woah Woah Woah 'I've always hated Monopoly. What a tedious, vindictive waste of a perfectly good afternoon. I am so pissed off that we're going extinct over what essentially is just a global game of Monopoly that virtually none of us want to play.'

The game was created to show the flaws in capitalism and how awful monopoly is by a feminist in 1903. It's a beautifully constructed living metaphor, or analogy, (I never learned the difference) that I'd argue hits the same notes as the best literature. The fact US culture took the satire literally doesn't negate the brilliance of it. Just because capitalist zealots love the movie Wallstreet doesn't mean it wasn't a brilliant critique of greed...but shows the danger in how satire can be coopted. Lord knows what would happen if A Modest Proposal by Swift came out in the year 2021.

--https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-history-monopoly-capitalist-game-leftwing-origins

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Great, great insight about miracles still being possible— they are as inevitable as the paradigm shifting miracle called awakened awareness— because they will come from outside our conditioned patterns and thus something we cannot anticipate.

Yes, the more conscious we become the more we see clearly how lost and confused and manipulated we are... and yet we still feel some inner impulse to carry on, to help, to survive long enough to awaken to our collective oneness.... long enough for the miracle to emerge.

The source of society’s propaganda is our inner propagandist, the mind-made ‘me’. This egoic “me” is made of narrative, of stories about “my life” and so it constantly creates narratives in order to survive and stay in power over us. This inner self-created propaganda keeps us feeling powerless and unable to experience the truth of who we are and of reality.

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On censorship --- About Facebook, Google, Tweeter, Amazon MONOPOLIES:

A very good discussion on simple and available solutions that are NOT enforced

DEMAND from our endlessly tweeting "progressive" Congressmen/women -- ENFORCEMENT of antitrust and anti-tracking laws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw6N8IbvjkE&feature=emb_logo

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would have twitted your newsletter as i often have done before, but the zionist cockroaches have blocked my twitter account and disqus account as well. how long before they block my substack account??? the cockroaches are mosdef depsperate, LOL.

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