Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:
The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.
Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.
James M.
@TarkabarkaHolgy yes, outrage fatigue has been used as a weapon by the right when they gain power. Trump certainly used it before, and so did GWB. That's one reason they're so sadistic, because it wears us out. Great advice!
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@TarkabarkaHolgy
Some time ago I read that propaganda acts by overloading you, until you surrender your right of critical thinking and start just taking in their message. That is why propaganda isn't really afraid of being self-contradictory, as its recipients aren't examining its message critically.
Overloading works really well through outrage, of course.
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@CaffeinatedBookDragon @dzm @TarkabarkaHolgy
It may be more that contradictions just don't matter to the believer or the passive absorber. It is a very different brain than ours.
Teedi P.
Makes sense. With all the repetitions of the main message, the contradictions get lost in the shuffle and folks will insist that the person "never said that."
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
@dzm Overloading also works for making you doubt everything you read and everything anyone says. The goal is not to believe "immigrants are eating dogs". The goal is to doubt everything everywhere until you give up.
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@TarkabarkaHolgy Thanks for the advice. Mutual aid and clever humorous projects help with pacing. Liberation is a process of multiple approaches. Despite sadistic pleasures of the oppressors, they wouldn’t be trying so hard if #BLM hadn’t been so in their faces. Remember, plumbing and sewers require maintenance.
#avoidburnout
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@dzm @CaffeinatedBookDragon @TarkabarkaHolgy
I used to think people are pretty much the same.
Nope.
There is the authoritarian mind, the compliant mind, and the analytical mind. These categories of mind cut orthogonally through other forms of identity. These minds are represented in all cultures, all identities, all genders, all races, all countries, all economic classes and all levels of intellect. You will find all three in families.
Most categories ...
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@EubieDrew @CaffeinatedBookDragon @TarkabarkaHolgy
I will disagree. First, i don't like separating people into us and them. All people are pretty much the same. Second, i think i know how it feels to be overwhelmed, when you have no capacity left to consider smth seriously, so you just give in and go with whatever happens to resonate with you at the moment (the first, or the closest, the most familiar, etc).
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@dzm @CaffeinatedBookDragon @TarkabarkaHolgy
... Most categories of identity are more apparent than real, hence one CAN usually say "People are pretty much the same." when contrasting, but I firmly believe that does not apply to differing minds. They are not the same.
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@dzm @CaffeinatedBookDragon @TarkabarkaHolgy
The original point further up the the thread is we have to come to terms with how fundamentally different the #Authoritarian Mind and the #Compliant Mind are from us, the #resistance and/or the bulk of the citizens of #federated #socialmedia.
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@EubieDrew @CaffeinatedBookDragon @TarkabarkaHolgy
Mmm, ok,that i won't argue about. Different we all are as well. But not better than others. And somehow, despite all differences, still pretty much the same in our rights. That's where i was going, not that we are all identical.
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