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this neurotic social engineering agenda
The world is now more generic than it has ever been because everything is so controlled. Music and movies tend to be unoriginal and uninspired, same thing for comedy because people are scared to say anything that might upset the thought police. And that is yet another reason so many people are starting to rebel against this elitist technocracy led by neurotic leftists, and nothing they do can stop it.
edit on 31/3/2024 by ChaoticOrder because: (no reason given)
originally posted by: budzprime69
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
The simple fact you refuse to acknowledge that it is not just the leftist but equally the rights fault makes your rant not really worth much.
You would be wise to step out from the left/right mindset. You will cause yourself anguish.
There is no social-engineering agenda.
Big bad capitalism eh?Are you a communist or Marxist by any chance?
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
this neurotic social engineering agenda
There is no social-engineering agenda. There is only the natural development of markets in a capitalist system.
First phase: somebody spots, or creates, a business opportunity that never existed before. A few pioneers rush to exploit it. At first, it’s easy to make bucks: not much competition, plenty of demand and a fairly open playing field because the downsides of whatever benefit you're offering customers have not yet become apparent and drawn the attention of government regulators and consumer-protection groups.
Next phase: everyone piles into the market. Competition is rife. Over time, the more successful competitors send the others out of business or gobble them up. This is called a ‘shakeout’ by marketing theorists. By the end of this phase, a few very big players dominate the market. Regulators and legislators have also begun looking at the business, and drafting rules for it − rules that smaller firms have trouble meeting, because conforming with them costs money and reduces profitability.
Phase Three: the big players continue to compete against one another, but the market is now saturated, so growth can only come from productivity gains and ‘improved’ (ie more appealing to consumers) product designs. The big players invest massively in market and product research, and their products, driven by this research, become more and more like one another’s, i.e. ‘generic’. A few small firms (or small subsidiaries of the big players) may still remain, serving the handful of people who are not satisfied with the ‘generic‘ product.
Phase Four: a monopoly or oligopoly. Players can now save on market-research and product-design expenditure because customers, now firmly hooked and lacking the choices they had at an earlier stage when the market was more diversified, now have to take whatever the big boys give them. Sometimes governments intervene at this point with antitrust laws or competitiveness regulations to ‘bust the trust’ and give consumers more choice, but this is not always successful.
There is no ‘control agenda’ in any of this. It’s just capitalism doing its thing, following the lure of the market.
originally posted by: TheSingleBillie
So Biden banned any religious themed items at the White House egg roll. A purely religious holiday, with zero other original meaning but Christian. There is no meaning left in Easter, why the heck celebrate bunnies and eggs? That is what the White House egg roll has become, a celebration of eggs and bunnies. That's downright weird.
The simple fact is the world is entrenched in a left/right political duality, and ignoring that reality isn't any better than being trapped in a one-sided mentality.