John on Nostr: See this last one is where I disagree. I think psychology is real, and neofascists ...

See this last one is where I disagree. I think psychology is real, and neofascists constructed a psychological kettle that held the population in check, probably better than they could have ever hoped.

Everything fits together into this interlocking prison in a way that is just too precise to be coincidental. Sure, the details have varied; but the overall mechanisms were made with affordances.

You see USians as a people with agency in a democracy; I see them as prisoners.