The subjective turn.
"Today, most of us feel strongly that we have the right to make the important decisions concerning our lives as individuals. These are conceived as personal choices that individuals have the right to make for themselves. While this idea is entirely intuitive to us today, it’s not absolute but rather socially and historically conditioned. The ancients had a very different understanding of such things."
By Jon Stewart
https://aeon.co/essays/hegel-and-the-history-of-human-nature
@corlin Excellent essay! We now seem to be on the precipice of either figuring out how to reconcile individualism with freedom - or making a bigger mess of it:
"...people feel that they are at liberty to make up their own fiction and assert it as reality, even if their fictional version stands in stark contradiction to objectively verifiable facts, established law, accepted custom or self-evident ethical principles."
@corlin Do you really think anyone in government is sufficiently focused and coordinated to pull that off? Unless it is a fundamental force in humanity, I think it's just a backward-seeking correlation.
@jurban
The state will give you spectacle to keep you confused and helpless. They will tell you it is your fault. They will charge you for the technological gadgets that keep you quiescent, and running away from human mutual aid. To segregate you into smaller affinity groups, thus easier for them to manipulate and disavow.
“Would you hit your left hand with a hammer, to make your right hand feel better! Just as your left hand is connected to your right hand, so all of us are deeply connected.”