Cameraimage cinematography festival in the bin

[Clark Nikolai]

On 11/19/2024 at 2:05 AM, Ilkka Nissila said:

From a European point of view, I would say that on economic policies the US Democrats are center-right,

 

From a Canadian perspective as well. The US Democratic Party would be considered centre-right in Canada.

Having said that even Canadian politics is more right than it used to be, much like the world. This was predicted by historians.  When resources run out, people start fighting over their differences (which previously would have been ignored) then political opportunists see this and use it to gain power.  

[majoraxis]

3 hours ago, Snowfun said:

Isn’t that precisely the problem? What we “believe” to be true isn’t enough. We should endeavour to listen to the evidence so we know what is true.

(And, yes, we can argue about the evidence and its significance but that is all part of the epistemological  process - it doesn’t diminish the difference between what is true and what is not. Irrespective of what I, or anyone else, might believe).

Exactly - we are programmed to to believe what we believe for the benefits of the powers that be.

We are programed/incented to take sides so that the rich get richer.

We all have confirmation bias and confirm what we are programmed to confirm.

Trump, Biden, Harris, Obama, Bush, the Clintons all play for the same team. That's what they all laughed when Trump said I ran into Hillary and she said pardon me - they are not putting each other in jail - they know the joke is on the common person.

We need to get to the montage scene in our own personal movies where we realize what is closer to the true:

Programming equals profit for the powers that be and we are all programmed and pitted against each other and we actually have more in common than we are programmed to believe.

Jules in Pulp Fiction had his realization. I wish all of our personal story arcs would include a realization about how we are all programmed to some degree or another...