The temptation and crucial flaw of a totalitarian mind are that everyone must play a part in a superstructural battle between good and evil. Standing on the sidelines or taking a neutral position on present topics is not allowed; one may not merely observe or ignore the madness played out among the power hungry.

Everyone needs a take; everyone needs to “be informed” on the grand, irrelevant events of our broken times. Everyone needs a flag in their profile picture—a not-so-grand gesture indicating that they support the “latest thing.”

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, totalitarian minds also think being able to breathe oxygen is a good thing, but you don’t see me out here holding my breath to try to avoid being like them.

Associating ideas you don’t like with people you find detestable is a common tactic of totalitarians too, yet here you are.

Go get informed and stop treating politics as something that is voluntary. In a democratic society, it’s not. If you don’t want to be informed and involved, then you don’t really want a democracy, you just want to be served, and democratic societies can’t function if that’s people’s primary motivations.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you.

After informing myself too much, always following the news in detail and finally breaking down with the current escalation in the middle east my wife told me something similiar and i finally blocked all "news" pages.

The game is rigged, for we now have a voice, but the daily information we are expected to seek is not only tainted, it is in its very essence to poison our mind. So at the end we make a poor decision begrudingly, while taking responsibilty for