• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    I am slowly discarding my differentiations between stupid and evil, there’s a different, mysterious third thing that combines both but exists on its own.

    Willful Ignorance. Choosing to remain stupid despite access to information.

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      Got me remembering Badiou’s Ethics and how part of evil involves “fidelity to the lie” and actively denying the shared truth of reality.

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        HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

        https://youtube.com/shorts/gs1-ebayUIs

        Some links you may find interesting. It took me a few sittings to finish it because there’s so much information to process but I highly recommend watching that documentary.