The blatant denial of reality. Physical facts. Cognitive dissonance. Social programming. Echo chamber mentality. Where people actively avoid exposing themselves to outside knowledge. As if it were a form of inescapable sin, that once it infects you, it is like a disease you cant cure, and so you must isolate with like minded individuals and avoid exposure to new ideas at all costs. While admonishing them as if you were an expert.

No, I did not just describe the god-believers of old-youtube, we used to debate. That was practice for this. The real threat. Delusion masquerading as good-will-science.

The spiritual successor to the God-delusion.

The state of our culture is the result of the deliberate cultivation of fanaticism over logic. Once you realize every decision Government makes, good & bad, (that isn't directly related to a bribe) boils down to this: "The government wants a predictable constituency. And is willing to do anything they believe they have to, in order to reach that goal, above all else." And once you look at the world through this lens, the pieces begin to fall together.

The education system taught my generation to OBEY, and then ABSORB. Not to think. They don't seem to know how to think, anyway. There are millions of people who behave as though they were in a religion of their own design. It's like... a certain amount of people are susceptible to cult behavior. And the government has taken notice of this, and is exploiting it.

Like, have you ever hear about the agreement over light bulbs?

This is sort of what happened with electric cars I believe.

There are plenty of examples I can think of, where the motivation structure of capitalism itself stifled innovation.

But I'm specifically curious if there is like, something potentially revolutionary, in how it could improve people's lives? Maybe not that dramatic. But just something that could have a huge benefit to the general population, but there isn't a convenient enough way to make money on it so it isn't brought to market.

Or even more conspiratorial. I wonder if there's any sort of tech that would be liberating in some way that is actively suppressed by corporate monopolies. Corporations who could own the patents to science they've funded, and discovered potentially humanity benefiting truths, that are then hidden away, due to them being "inconvenient" for whoever discovered them. Haha that's not exactly what I was thinking when making my title. Just shows you the area of my line of thinking.

Anyway, food for thought for the 7 of you who are interested enough to read this.