Deckard Kain (westernpromises)

That regardless of how you feel about religion, the above describes how nearly all westerners’ relationship with Democracy. I’ve spent my life as a blasphemer, and in the West, Democracy is one of our most sacred idols “How can you be anti democracy? So you’re for totalitarianism?”

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You grew up in a milieu where seriously doubting Democracy was *never available to you* I’m asking people to consciously recognize this, and follow their own thoughts from there Maybe current Western style Democracy is a monstrously cruel thing to inflict on a People, and that’s the point

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“Why can’t governments balance a budget?” The global ruling class is able to convert capital into the thoughts and ideas of its People. It’s not necessarily ‘capital efficient’, but with the infinite money printer, any belief/idea they want to be consensus is possible, it’s just a matter of how much $

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I remember seeing a clip on an Atheism channel of a young black adult saying he didn’t know “not believing in god” was “an option” growing up You can imagine- a culture+community where some amount of religious belief is so ubiquitous, that disbelief is completely out of conscious reach reach So, the point?

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