Reply #36: Religious and cultural nationalism. [View All]

[intheflow]

You wrote:
"The more efficient approach is to trick the people into believing they still live free. As long as the illusion holds, the people are less likely to rise up. It is an excellent example of social engineering."

They do this with religion and culture.

Religion: As long as they promote a religious view that holds that Jesus is ONLY a personal savior, promoting individualism within the confines of doctrine and dogma, they have their complicit society. Personal Jesus = freedom.

Culture: As long as they provide T&A (or even the suggestion of T&A) in the culture, as long as they control the media, they can promote another kind of individualism based on consumer culture. This is the American Dream myth, that each of us can have it all, just like the rich people. Once people buy into that myth, they also become a complicit society. Ownership of things = freedom.

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