>>794024>You specifically said that seeking truth brings about trauma and that most people are ignorant and uneducated about their system You also said most people are blind defenders of the status quo.Again, you can't read. I said that trauma along with other factors often brings about the conditions necessary for you to question the current state of things. Social exclusion and mental illness (caused by childhood trauma) among other factors that place one outside of the in-group are what forces people to question commonly accepted narratives, otherwise people have no reason to feel that they have to search outside the system to find the answers they seek. We are raised on capitalism prosperity gospel that assures us that we live in the freest, most advanced, and most liberal society ever to have existed, which means that only someone who has experienced firsthand the failures of the system and realized that it was never meant to serve the working class in the first place is going to look at it from the outside. You are not going to find any of this kind of discourse among podcasters or social media. You have to read Marx first and grasp him to be able to see it. This is the point you are not understanding. There are no truly mainstream public figures that question capitalism or speak of revolution or unifying the working class. Hasan Piker and breadtubers are all social democrats who push for reforms and more taxes, more ineffectual nonsense. You, like most people, look at the surface level culture, the shadow puppets on the wall, and take it at face value, not even questioning whether what you're seeing is real or not.
"How can you say that nobody questions the culture if the mainstream propaganda funded by the ruling class sets the framework of the entire question and then answers it for you in a way that suits them?" Do you see the ridiculousness of such a belief? It is like when government agencies investigate themselves and find themselves not guilty of any wrongdoing. This is the liberal perspective that I have already mentioned, responsible "questioning" within an already accepted framework where it is seen as "extreme" to go outside of liberal capitalism. This is complacency, when you pattern people to become afraid of anything that goes outside what propaganda deems "reasonable".
>It’s the opposite. Everyone thinks all bad things come from following the crowd. Yet, the same moralfagging they do is the herd mentality.So in effect you're saying that they are tricked into a de facto herd mentality anyway? Almost as if you are proving your own point wrong and saying I'm correct in that people still feel the need to follow the herd. Even if it's some reverse-psychology, the end result is the same.
>It’s popular to hate on TikTok and Reddit. Inceldom and femcel don is quite popular. The real breakers from the herd are people who don’t care about politics and choose to consume romantic media or porn or whatever. The people who watch TikTok or browse Reddit without any moralistic hangouts about “brain rot”.The real breakers from the herd are the ones who are able to look at the cultural arena and see it as a whole. None of these people that you're describing have been able to successfully see the way they are just cogs in a media machine, they still participate from it while thinking they are not of it.
>Not all propaganda is right wing. You forget about radlib bullshit.So inconsequential as to be meaningless. The bottom of the political compass is mostly the butt of jokes, meanwhile there are masses of people in comments sections who glaze Hitler and make wink wink nudge nudge jokes about how they're all secretly Nazis while pretending not to be.
>Intellectualism died a long time ago and to begin with, was never about sincere inquiry.Completely false. Academia is one thing, but serious intellectual inquiry goes back to Plato, Dharmic philosophy, and Daoism, among many other intellectual traditions.