- 09 Aug 2023 23:56
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You don't see it, and yet it's staring you right in the face.
A group of indigenous huddled around a fire spinning tall tales of animal spirits and long dead warriors is not like the others because everyone participates. There are no gate keepers, and there is no "behind the scenes conspiring."
But I agree that organized religion is like mass media... without the technology, but with all the psychological manipulation of the upper classes and their sidekicks - the priest-class and the media-producer-class.
Mass media has many of the same psychological manipulations of organized religion. And look... the same people wrote the lies of both.
Unthinking Majority wrote:A group of theater-goers huddled in front of a movie screen. A group of people huddled in church pews. A group of indigenous huddled around a fire spinning tall tales of animal spirits and long dead warriors. I see no real difference...
You don't see it, and yet it's staring you right in the face.
A group of indigenous huddled around a fire spinning tall tales of animal spirits and long dead warriors is not like the others because everyone participates. There are no gate keepers, and there is no "behind the scenes conspiring."
But I agree that organized religion is like mass media... without the technology, but with all the psychological manipulation of the upper classes and their sidekicks - the priest-class and the media-producer-class.
Mass media has many of the same psychological manipulations of organized religion. And look... the same people wrote the lies of both.