azspot:

If you were a fictional villain, bent on subjugating the population by coaxing them into inactivity, you couldn’t build a better group than this.

They’re smart, they scowl at the unconventional, they are great at their jobs but are functionally neutered outside of work—it’s a tyrant’s dream. It’s a population that will do exactly what the corporation (and its sister media outlets) tell them to do, and will willfully ignore the “crazy liberals” talking about the loss of the republic due to their apathy.

It’s a Mr. Burns finger tent the size of the St. Louis arch.

That’s really my problem with it: It’s un-American. Not the working hard part—that part’s good (and American). But the unthinking part. The lack of participation in our society. The ignoring of the politics. The lack of interest in who holds their strings.

This is precisely the dimness that evil men need in the population to be able to manipulate it. Early Americans didn’t abide by this sort of thing. They were aware. They knew who their representatives were. They were active.

They were citizens.

That’s what this corporate influence has done—it’s removed the citizen from the man. It’s wielded the education system and the media to transform active participants into passive placeholders. It’s turning the best among us—our college graduates—into a quiet mass of politically inert conformists.

The problem with these types is not that they are unintelligent, or that they’re immoral. I’ve met some great people who have these characteristics. They tend to be highly dependable and kind. So the problem is not that they’re bad people—it’s that their potential as human beings, and as citizens, has been destroyed by the fetishization of convention.

Look for these signs in your friends. Look for them in yourself. Oppose them.

Amen. Selah!