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AlteredAgain
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America divided by Two
#6048500 - 09/10/06 10:48 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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America is split in two, it always has been. The red and blue, the rich and poor, the black and white. Two sides pushing and pulling each other, always in conflict, never resolving anything, caught up in the drama, while the real power rests in the eye above, the true programmers of the post-911-surveillance grid of America.
This is how the system runs, ninety-nine percent are kept in the dark, herded like sheep. The pack of sheep is then guarded by wolves who think they are wolves, but are also really sheep. The system is designed to do this, to make us build our own prisons.
Here is a prime example of its workings, let me illustrate an interesting analogy that was done experimentally to monkeys.
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A monkey is put into a room. In this room there hangs a banana from the ceiling, to reach the banana a small set of stairs is placed below it.
Now obviously the monkey will want the banana, so it will swiftly attempt to do so. It climbs the stairs and before it can grab the banana it is sprayed with a water hose. The monkey retreats.
In the course of the next couple of days the monkey will keep trying and keep getting wet, it will eventually be conditioned to accept that he will be punished when pursuing the fruit.
Next step. A second monkey comes in to join. He sees the banana and goes for it. The second monkey, as well as the first monkey are punished with a violent splash of cold water. Notice how both monkeys are given the wet treatment.
So the two monkeys share the room now, and monkey two just won't learn, he keeps climbing up to the banana and punishing himself and his fellow ape. The observation that is made is that monkey one starts to get upset, for he doesn't want to be punished for monkey two's actions. Therefore now whenever monkey two runs for the banana, monkey one comes in and slaps the shit out him. Monkey two retreats.
This experiment was done with several monkeys. Everytime a new monkey came in, the already existing pack would keep the newcomer in line, knowing that punishment can only be avoided when noone reaches for the prize.
I think this is very similar to how we are kept in line. Everyone is watching out for everyone, everyone is suspicious of everyone. "You cannot do that, that is against the law" is shouted regardless of the morality of the law, the law may be unjust, but it must be accepted, and what we have done is accepted the laws that our government makes, and most of us even defend them without question.
Just some things to think about, my ideas were overflowing so i thought i'd spill them here for you all, without stepping too much into the muddy puddles of politics and current world affairs. I'm more interested in the nature of this matter.
Feel free to discuss.
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Redstorm
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I don't believe America is as divided as the media and politicians would lke you to believe. The US is not Red or Blue, it is just various shades of purple.
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kotik
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Re: America divided by Two [Re: Redstorm]
#6049081 - 09/11/06 06:19 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I don't think everything is black/white either, but the politicians and media play that card to much, that it almost seems like it, and I think thats part of the trick.
I'd really like to know the source for that scientific study though, like an actual name and date and etc.
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Annapurna1
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this may be getting off-topic..but its worth pointing out that our whole technology revolves around such a duality (binary bits)..and its difficult to determine whether its the cause or the result of social manicheanism...
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Microcosmatrix
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Re: America divided by Two [Re: Annapurna1]
#6049658 - 09/11/06 11:41 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Duality is present in nature, I don't think it's particular to America or technology, we just copied it. Off and on, light and dark, night and day, male and female, cold and hot, that's just the way life is.
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kotik
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yes, but opposites represent polar opposites, not ways to live. Parties that pretend to be so opposite, when really the same with different rhetoric are not "the way life is."
well, thats how it is now, because it was designed to be like that.
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SirTripAlot
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Re: America divided by Two [Re: kotik]
#6050247 - 09/11/06 03:10 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I like division, especially in congress, it creates gridlock and less spending.
I am no way a Democrat, but I hope they win the House or the Senate to make gridlock.
Having the Executive, and both the House and the Senate, Republican, has made spending out of control.....take your hands off my fucking money!!!!!!!
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Microcosmatrix
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Re: America divided by Two [Re: kotik]
#6050282 - 09/11/06 03:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, the real solution is to scrap the whole stinking system entirely and make a new plan. And yes, the 2 major party system is really just a way to keep people interested in senseless bullshit.
The way it is now however, life really is more care-free and enjoyable when Democrats are in power than when Republicans are.
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daimyo
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Source for the monkey study?
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Silversoul
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Re: America divided by Two [Re: Redstorm]
#6050457 - 09/11/06 04:02 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Redstorm said: I don't believe America is as divided as the media and politicians would lke you to believe. The US is not Red or Blue, it is just various shades of purple.
If you compare us to a country like Italy, Americans are almost all identical.
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kotik
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Re: America divided by Two [Re: Silversoul]
#6050659 - 09/11/06 04:51 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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after searching for a while, i've come to the conclusion the "monkey study" is really just an office-humor joke, and not an actual study that was ever performed, or considered.
It does make for a convincing theory though.
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