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The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy

States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)

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#passivity #indifference #disinterest #crime

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”

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A quotation from Cicero

He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.

[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]

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“We’ve made some updates to our Terms of Service. No action is needed by you.”

“Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!”

#PassiveConsumption #Passivity #Tech #SocialMedia #Internet #Capitalism #CapitalismKills

Growth does not occur within the confines of constant agreement and obedience. Growth comes with purpose, not passivity. #Growth with Narghiza Ergashova

#Agreement, #Confines, #Growth, #Obedience, #Passivity, #Purpose

Growth does not occur within the confines of constant agreement and obedience.
Growth comes with purpose, not passivity. #Growth
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The world is a shitfest right now. Why do we let it be? Why are we so MEEK? #indoctrinated #learnedhelplessness #conformity #passivity #TheGreatLie

A quotation from Hugo

However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one’s self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference.

[Du reste, comme nous venons de l’indiquer, les cerveaux absorbés dans une sagesse, ou dans une folie, ou, ce qui arrive souvent, dans les deux à la fois, ne sont que très lentement perméables aux choses de la vie. Leur propre destin leur est lointain. Il résulte de ces concentrations-là une passivité qui, si elle était raisonnée, ressemblerait à la philosophie. On décline, on descend, on s’écoule, on s’écroule même, sans trop s’en apercevoir. Cela finit toujours, il est vrai, par un réveil, mais tardif. En attendant, il semble qu’on soit neutre dans le jeu qui se joue entre notre bonheur et notre malheur. On est l’enjeu, et l’on regarde la partie avec indifférence.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 3 “Marius,” Book 5 “The Excellence of Misfortune,” ch. 4 (3.5.4) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

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Growth does not occur within the confines of constant agreement and obedience. Growth comes with purpose, not passivity. #Growth with Narghiza Ergashova

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"The term fake artists doesn’t really do justice to the scope of the situation—because, as we have seen, it’s not the musicians, real or otherwise, who are at the root of the situation, but the dominant players in the industry."—Ted Gioia >

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-fake-artists-problem-is-much

#music #streaming #scam #playlists #capitalism #playlistplacement #streamingmodel #fakes #profits #algorithms #manipulation #Spotify #musicconsumption #passivity #Sweden #musicindustry #crooks #corporations #corporatocracy

A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

«
There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
»

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https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72999/

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A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:

«
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
»

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https://wist.info/bible-nt/25598/

#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activity #Christianity #doinggood #good #gooddeed #passivity #sin #works

A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

«
CALVIN: Oh, Great Altar of Passive Entertainment … Bestow upon me thy discordant images at such speed as to render linear thought impossible!
»

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https://wist.info/watterson-bill/4071/

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A quotation from Shakespeare, William:

«
MACBETH: If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me
Without my stir.
»

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https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/71245/

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A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin:

«
He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.
»

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https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/68559/

#quote #quotes #quotation #expectations #fate #fortune #presumption #security #waiting #action #passivity

#DELAY IS CRITICAL TO EVERY PART of the Trump strategy if Biden wins in November
—delay verifying ballots,
delay with recounts,
delay with audits.

Delay sows doubt.

Piling up #lawsuits does too, even if they are later thrown out.

The RNC has filed lawsuits in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and even Mississippi.

Kari Lake filed a case with the Supreme Court claiming electronic voting machines in Maricopa County are “susceptible to hacking.”

She wants the Court to outlaw electronic voting.

No matter the outcome of the case, Lake will, no doubt, blame these machines should she
—or Trump—lose their elections in Arizona.

Layered over this volatile scenario is the #threat of #violence, whether Trump explicitly encourages it at the time or not.

His torrent of #lies and the #cowardice of elected Republicans who knowingly echo his lies have created a permanent threat to election workers.

Trump supporters are primed for #battle
—metaphoric and physical.

A spokeswoman for Trump recently claimed that the party will be sending “#soldiers” to monitor voting.

Last week, Judge Michael Luttig remarked about the unprecedented
threat Trump presents to our judiciary and to democracy,
following Trump’s #attacks on the daughter of the judge who will preside over his hush money case.

“Never in history has any person leveled such attacks and been met with such #passivity, #acquiescence, and #submissiveness by the nation,” Luttig wrote.

The same can be said for the nation’s collective reaction to Trump’s plans to steal the 2024 election.

Rich Lowry wrote last month in a National Review column titled
“How Exactly Would Donald Trump End American Democracy?”
that “we can stipulate that if Trump loses in November 👉he won’t concede the election and, in all likelihood, will engage in the same kind of pressure campaign to change the results as he did in 2020.”

What Trump has planned for November and December, if he doesn’t win, is not a “pressure campaign.” It’s another #coup.

#RNC #Christina #Bobb #litmus #test #Cleta #Mitchell #ERIC

A quotation from Kettering, Charles F.:

«
Keep on going, and chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
»

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https://wist.info/kettering-charles/30571/

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