Struggle sessions were a propaganda tool used by the Communist Party of China to shape public opinion while humiliating and silencing political rivals.
In 1958, Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward, intending to move China's economy from agrarian centered to industrial.
The result of Mao's reign was an estimated 18-45 million deaths.
This is an example of Marxism, an ideology that many professors and brainwashed 20-somethings publicly support to this day.
Want to see other examples of the travesty that this political/economic theory has wrought on humanity?
Russia: The Bolshevik revolution resulted in 100 million dead.
Cuba: the masses live in poverty to this day.
Italy: Mussolini was a socialist before becoming a fascist
Many more countries around the world have struggled with bouts of socialism, communism, and fascism, all with countless lives lost and generations of citizens suffering at the hands of a select few men.
History is repeated by those that do not know it.
In the US today, we are already undergoing a fight between the left vs. the right.
Mao used "struggle sessions" to publicly humiliate anyone that questioned the state.
SJWs are doing this today with their cancel culture nonsense. Private individuals as well as public, institutions (STEM), and corporations are bowing down to the online mob and firing employees, changing brand and product names, banning movies, burning books, rewriting history, and canceling large swaths of our culture without a fight.
These spineless individuals issue PR-crafted apologies or are fired outright by even more spineless individuals at the board level.
These online mobs are seeking power, not justice. They don’t care about equality. They don’t want reform: they want power. That’s all. And the masses are letting them gobble it up.
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If you look at any major conflict or revolution in history, you can see the building up to conflict from an increasing polarization between opposing sides—this side vs that, this idea vs that, this political theory vs that, this economic theory vs that.
The Internet has sped up this polarization to a speed humanity has never seen.
Kids are growing up with a propaganda machine in their pocket, one designed to polarize them. The algorithms are designed to monopolize user attention so the tech giants can sell this attention to advertisers. The machines lead individuals down dark one-sided ways of thought by serving them information that supports their beliefs while at the same time suppressing information that challenges their beliefs and/or offers a competing worldview.
Today we need a competing worldview… more than ever.
As if that wasn't enough, we see the same thing happening in the political realm in which you have adult babies—who are somehow in control of important things—going at each other on Twitter all day as if they have nothing else to do. This has further increased the polarization of our political system to the point that politicians can't work together because to do so would be admitting to some kind of weakness.
This is not what the party system was supposed to do: it is supposed to create a balance of opposing ideas by challenging the ideas on each side with the goal of bringing something productive to the middle since that is where progress is found. What Aristotle called "the golden mean."
Instead, we have this side vs. that and a line in the middle you aren't allowed to cross. Given enough time, this will lead us to some kind of civil war. And it will be the crumbling of the way of life as we know it.
If the "silent majority" don't speak up and fight back—like they haven't been—we are doomed.
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There is an American hubris built into the American mind that thinks a civil war or a revolution could never happen here. But it has. It can. And it will.
The government, by default, can not not be corrupt. Humans, given power, will continue to seek power. We are beyond the point of “checks and balances.”
Corporations have become so intertwined into the political sphere that they basically control everything. Even still, more regulation is never the answer since, as we have seen, the government cannot do anything the way it needs to be done. It is literally impossible for the government to do things the way they should be done.
We need less government, not more. Yet more is what we get each year as some absurd number like 75,000 new regulations and laws are “passed.”
And the public keeps asking for it!
Each new "war on X" is an opportunity for the rich to get richer and the powerful to get more powerful.
What's crazy about this is none of this is a conspiracy theory... it is all out in the open.
The fed prints 2.5 trillion dollars in the name of "saving our economy," but what actually happens is the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
(You do realize that each dollar printed makes your dollars that less valuable? This is a tax, though they don’t call it that.)
Yet no one is anyone talking about it because everyone is so afraid of some apparently deadly virus. Thank the media and the elite puppeteers for that.
If we keep letting the media and corporate-purchased politicians tell us what to think and how to live, we will continue down this path until we have no rights or freedoms left whatsoever.
I've never been political.
I don't like thinking about any of this and I like talking and writing about it even less. I prefer building things and helping people and focusing on a positive future.
I just can’t do only that anymore. The absurdities fo the past six months have forcibly removed my beloved rose-tinted glasses. And I’ve been forced, begrudgingly, into the fray.
I'm pro-human: I believe we can build an equitable and fair world, and that the US is our best chance at doing such.
The Free Market will create a better world. We will eventually solve our climate issues and learn how to interact with Mother Nature in a symbiotic way rather than a destructive way. We will learn how to make everything as fair as it can be. We can build a better future for the next generation.
None of this will be done by government. The free market will do it, and entrepreneurs will be at the front.
Eventually, we will colonize the solar system and reach the point where there is no such thing as "sustainable" or "scarce" because we will have the Universe and its limitless resources at our disposal.
I still believe this.
The difference is this: I'm no longer net optimistic about the future for this country. Too much has boiled to the top to the point that I don’t believe we can come out of this without conflict, major conflict.
Maybe it will be a political revolution and won't come to bloodshed. I hope so. For my sons and the millions of great people living in this country, I so dearly hope so.
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Finally, I used to think the Internet was man's greatest invention. I guess I still do in a way.
The problem is the current iteration of the internet. That is the real danger.
The current internet is monopolized by a few unregulated tech monopolies. These tech giants control what we see, think, and feel, and are barreling us down the path of self-destruction.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think these companies or the humans that run them are doing any of this on purpose. Just like I don’t think most people wake up each day and try to enslave mankind.
Instead what we have are a what I call “accidental conspiracies” in which certain factors come into play that create really really really bad situations when human dogma and greed is added to the mix.
One example is Bill Gates.
I don’t know enough about him, but this is what I think: I believe he lives much of his life in books, inside his head, and thus he is a product of the scientific research we have UP TO THIS POINT.
If you know anything about science or research, you know that it is supposed to be wrong MOST of the time. People think the opposite, which is why we get so much fanaticism around certain ideas.
Science is in the business of trying to disprove itself. Humans are in the business of trying to prove themselves. We don’t like changing our minds. Here’s a telling example fro the scientific field, a field in which you’d think scientist are trained to constantly level up their thinking:
