Thread by @James_Townsend9

🧵22 THINGS I’VE LEARNT ABOUT HUMANITY IN THE PAST 2 YEARS🦠💥

1. Most people would rather accept a lie as truth, than admit they were wrong. Many of those same people would forgo freedoms & accept punishments just to save face, and prolong the canopy of deceit.

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2. Millions of people struggle to comprehend the power and wealth mindset — and that just because an individual already has power and wealth, doesn’t mean they aren’t desperate for more of it. All lifestyles are relative, and naivety is a key component here.

3. Humans are generally complacent about the hard won ideas of freedom and liberty. Equally, most are blissfully unaware of the psychological techniques used to chip away at these important rights, while convincing you that you still have them.

4. Society has been (deliberately) dumbed down and critical thinkers are now a minority. Most people favour brain cell evaporating reality TV over reading a book or deeply researching a topic. The implications of this are unquantifiable.

5. The vast majority of people haven’t a clue who BlackRock or Vanguard Group are, let alone what kind of monopoly they have over world markets (combined global assets of $17 trillion).

6. The powerful human emotion ‘Fear’ can manipulate most people to do most things. A fear of death is topped by only one thing: a fear of social disapproval. This factor is capitalised on by those who control our societies.

7. Despite declarations to the contrary, humans will never actually learn from history and will recycle past mistakes.
Why? Because most people have very short memories, and prefer to act in the moment and in their own self-interest.

8. Humanity is largely content with being pawns in a game; constantly being distracted by divide and rule tactics over class, race, religion, war, pandemics, & the like. Those who refuse to play the game or worse, actively speak out against it, are ostracised by ‘civil society’.

9. Ridicule and humour are used by many to mask insecurities. For example, the overused retort of “when did you qualify as an epidemiologist?” conflates having an informed opinion with the need to come from a specific profession. Clearly nonsense.

10.Humans are far more comfortable *acting* like they are standing up for a cause, than actually standing up for a cause. Changing your profile photo to a countries flag is great for social media likes and virtue signalling, but actually does nothing productive.

11. Most humans have an ingrained bias towards conformity and obedience and away from non-conformity and discord. This propensity is greater the higher social class you encounter.

12.A significant % of people know that society is riddled with self-interest and corruption. But most feel helpless and apathetic, preferring instead to adopt a state of denial.

13. A key characteristic is shared between so-called conspiracy theorists and our elites: both are generally ‘ahead of the curve’. But the former lacks credibility with the wider public (largely because of the latter).

14.Repetitive soundbite slogans are used to manipulate most people. Saying something is “safe & effective” repeatedly will seep into most people’s consciousness to the extent that it becomes fact in their mind, regardless of evidence/counter evidence suggesting otherwise.

15.To a greater or lesser degree, most humans are selfish — believing ‘it’ can be ignored as long as it doesn’t affect them personally. Out of sight, out of mind: Martin Niemöller knew.

16.People don’t understand the tangled web of the media or grasp the power of the news cycle. Most don’t recognise that, often at the click of a switch, global attention can turn from one issue to another instantaneously (regardless of whether news value remains in the former).

17.Most humans have a narrow worldview (conditioned by factors such as culture/upbringing/exposure to media) and are reluctant to stray from that narrative, often preferring to double down than open their mind to new ways of thinking.

18.Subjugation isn’t just a niche bedroom kink. A significant proportion of the population actively revel in being enslaved by their government — favouring rules and routine over spontaneity and innovation.

19.Our natural negativity bias both fuels and aids and abets the system within which we live. Those who control the power structures know that fear (of the unknown/other), sex, and division sells. Examples of humanity coming together often isn’t profitable.

20. A significant percentage of people fail to see how language is deliberately inverted, distorted, and generalised to present them with a misleading, often simplified, reality. This tactic is often employed to shut down debate and silence opposition.

21.Position a doctor/scientist at a press conference lectern, and the majority of people will believe what they say purely because of their job title and not because of the content of their address. The reverse is true for other professions like politicians.

22. And yet, most people don’t realise that behind a job title is just another human being, and all human beings are fallible creatures. Scientists and doctors can be bought as easily as politicians, as history has repeatedly shown.

Agree? Disagree? Let me know!✌🏻

ENDS

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Full #Thread on Substack:
jtownsend.substack.com/p/22-things-iv…

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