Репост из: Blair Cottrell 🇦🇺
It’s a simple explanation.
Firstly, if you actually believe in human equality or even the potential for human equality, you’ll always be left confused and frustrated because you’ll end up assuming everybody is capable of reaching the same level of understanding, which they aren’t.
In reality most people simply don’t care about what’s going on and they lack the mental capacity to understand anyway. And this is no fault of theirs, it’s just the way they are, it’s the way they’ve always been and will always be.
Regular people aren’t bred to think, they just work, focus on their immediate needs and aren’t geared to actively participate in political activity.
You can’t make conscious revolutionaries out of ordinary people. The most you can expect of them is a vote, maybe a fleeting riot if things are bad enough, but there’s no point wasting your time trying to influence a regular person to support a certain political persuasion, because they’re never going to understand.
The good news is you don’t need a significant percentage of these people to produce major social-political change, because the regular folks will always support or obey whoever seems to be winning or ‘in control’. Basically you just need to seem strong and as though you’re a winning option, and most people will support you, regardless of what your policies are.
Since virtually everybody these days is born into ‘the regular folk’, those of them who are worth anything in politics will find their way out of the mob on their own. The rest will just work, eat and vote. That’s just the way it goes.
You can’t convince everybody and you don’t actually need to, so don’t stress.
Firstly, if you actually believe in human equality or even the potential for human equality, you’ll always be left confused and frustrated because you’ll end up assuming everybody is capable of reaching the same level of understanding, which they aren’t.
In reality most people simply don’t care about what’s going on and they lack the mental capacity to understand anyway. And this is no fault of theirs, it’s just the way they are, it’s the way they’ve always been and will always be.
Regular people aren’t bred to think, they just work, focus on their immediate needs and aren’t geared to actively participate in political activity.
You can’t make conscious revolutionaries out of ordinary people. The most you can expect of them is a vote, maybe a fleeting riot if things are bad enough, but there’s no point wasting your time trying to influence a regular person to support a certain political persuasion, because they’re never going to understand.
The good news is you don’t need a significant percentage of these people to produce major social-political change, because the regular folks will always support or obey whoever seems to be winning or ‘in control’. Basically you just need to seem strong and as though you’re a winning option, and most people will support you, regardless of what your policies are.
Since virtually everybody these days is born into ‘the regular folk’, those of them who are worth anything in politics will find their way out of the mob on their own. The rest will just work, eat and vote. That’s just the way it goes.
You can’t convince everybody and you don’t actually need to, so don’t stress.