We have lost all sense of self preservation. Almost like we the gipity. Which came first the gipity or the ape? I swear chain smoking monkeys driving cars.
You might find Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony interesting.
tl,dr: The ruling class and its institutions influence perception and values. Cultural norms become so ingrained that they become “common sense” and “what’s natural”.
Its not, the people working to convince you that it is have an obvious interest in maintaining the status quo, and they’re probably not gonna let things get better until and unless there’s a gun to their head
It’s not a crazy idea. It’s the one true, undeniable, self-evident truth that has always been hidden by the greedy and the powerful, and all of the smoke and mirrors they possess.
Because the ruling class ideas are the ruling ideas, they control education, public spaces and media (and also the repression apparatus in case the former is insufficient). It’s not about the sense of self preservation, we are not so different than ancient or medieval commoners who found questioning the divine rights of kings to own everything, a crazy idea.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.
― Karl Marx
The people who currently own the means of production really really like having control over everything.
🤠 they sure do
What is a gipity?
“AI” shortened version of chat gipity 🤣
Who’s this “public” guy?
