Do people really want freedom from freedom? 2016 suggests that Loki in The Avengers was right.
The evidence suggests that people do not practise critical thinking. Or do not want to think. Or do not think at all. It’s so much easier to surrender your decision-making processes to the nearest strongman who claims to have the answers to everything. Freedom comes with responsibility, and who has the energy for that? Yeah, join the hive mind and hide behind the supposed strength of numbers. If you agree with everyone, you can’t possibly be wrong, right?
Nope, it just makes you a scared little waste of evolution. Throughout history people have died to fight and to escape from slavery, but you choose to be a slave. You do not have to be anyone’s tool. Think.
You can choose to be free. We are responsible for ourselves and our fellow humans.
* Star Wars analogy redacted because every viewer naturally assumes she is the hero and not the oppressor.
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December 19th, 2016 at 19:41
The scene I am reminded of more is in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, when Zola narrates to Cap and Black Widow how Hydra finally got humanity ready to surrender its’ freedom for security: by feeding people’s fear, by spreading war, by inciting violence on all sides.
Right off the Hydra playbook, the Philippine Drug War, 2016.
December 21st, 2016 at 11:02
theguywithablog: Always remember what Peggy Carter said.