I kinda hope the hits are connected, and not just a series of coincidences.
But then after the November 24 general election, I kinda hoped there was overwhelming evidence of election fraud, as I want to believe 77 million Americans are not that unprincipled / credulous / bigoted.
I kinda hope the hits are connected, and not just a series of coincidences.
We all really, really want to believe that there are more powerful forces in the world, that there’s a “deep state” as well as bands of well-equipped and dedicated people fighting them. It’s why the Q-anon movement took off, people just desperately want to believe that there’s something out there bigger than the bullshit we see on the news every day.
The sad, horrible truth is that the reality behind the screens and stories is even stupider and more random than it even looks. There is nobody in charge, there are no powerful people pulling strings, there’s just a lot of really wealthy children who try different things until something works, and random people who sometimes stop them in one form or another.
I think genuinely that if the average citizen of any developed nation really understood how adrift our species was, they would be terrified beyond anything else we imagine as threats to our lives and futures.
Nobody is in charge. Nobody is coming. We’re on our own forever.
I know. This XKCD is from the 2013 government shutdown.
I get it’s wishful thinking, and while I can appreciate conspiracy theories fringe hypotheses, I don’t believe them to be true (unless it eventually comes out that they are).
I am a bad person.
I kinda hope the hits are connected, and not just a series of coincidences.
But then after the November 24 general election, I kinda hoped there was overwhelming evidence of election fraud, as I want to believe 77 million Americans are not that unprincipled / credulous / bigoted.
I want the ownership class worried.
We all really, really want to believe that there are more powerful forces in the world, that there’s a “deep state” as well as bands of well-equipped and dedicated people fighting them. It’s why the Q-anon movement took off, people just desperately want to believe that there’s something out there bigger than the bullshit we see on the news every day.
The sad, horrible truth is that the reality behind the screens and stories is even stupider and more random than it even looks. There is nobody in charge, there are no powerful people pulling strings, there’s just a lot of really wealthy children who try different things until something works, and random people who sometimes stop them in one form or another.
I think genuinely that if the average citizen of any developed nation really understood how adrift our species was, they would be terrified beyond anything else we imagine as threats to our lives and futures.
Nobody is in charge. Nobody is coming. We’re on our own forever.
I know. This XKCD is from the 2013 government shutdown.
I get it’s wishful thinking, and while I can appreciate
conspiracy theoriesfringe hypotheses, I don’t believe them to be true (unless it eventually comes out that they are).If they were all connected (i.e. if it were a small group of rebels doing it), it would be easier for the powers that be to stop them.