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existentialcomics.com • 39 days ago

The History of Political Authority
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/595

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grumpy0ldman84.bsky.social•39 days ago

😖

alcedin.bsky.social•39 days ago

the wisest philo phers, eh.

mib1617.bsky.social•39 days ago

😥

kefir00.bsky.social•39 days ago

Manufacturing Consent is 1988?

existentialcomics.com•39 days ago

I didn't even think to look it up at all, I'll fix that lol.

pdbqp.bsky.social•39 days ago

1984 = Manufacturing Consent
Brave New World = Manufacturing Content

lucyces.bsky.social•39 days ago

It's the "no one on particular" bit that kills me.

fireflows.bsky.social•39 days ago

Someone in Facebook's emotional manipulation research group.

ccbs1234.bsky.social•39 days ago

Marx was cooking but mass media really threw a wrench into the whole thing.

digoryk.bsky.social•39 days ago

The philosopher kings and queens of the supreme court are the best hope for the usa right now.

manqueman.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'm confused.
RWNJs say we're great because we're a continuation of the golden ages of Greek and Roman philosophy.
Assuming they do (doubtful!) how do they account for this decline?

falschspieler.com•39 days ago

No great philosopher, no monarch, no worker’s revolution. Just a machine whispering poison. The thing built by men but not for them. The words still come but they are whispered in pulses of light, in the steady drip of rage and desire. A thing built to feed itself. A thing that does not sleep.