#tessatechaitea

This guy knows what’s up

If you bitch about somebody always thinking they're right when they usually are right, you're an asshole. If they're usually right, they don't think they're usually right. They just usually are right. Stop believing it's some random roll of the dice that always happens to be against you and realize that maybe the other person is pretty smart and perceptive and you are an unobservant dolt!

Media and popular culture can be seen as a kind of spell being chanted over and over again across the whole of the world. Even if one, such as myself (and, you as well, I presume, Em), do not believe in magic, we must pay close attention to the information that constantly bombards the lesser thinking individuals in our midst. One cannot know how the unimaginative beasts will react when they are turned on to ideas and events far beyond their comprehension. Ofttimes, the lesser man (and woman, of course. I trust we are all (save maybe Little Tokyo) fine with my use of the term "man" as one of ambiguous gender merely representing our entirety of a species without judgment or implied erasure. Surely, the term "man" is lesser than the term "woman" being that "woman" is always precise and specific, whereas "man" can never be completely free of inclusion) will only know that he (or she. Once again, the former argument fits the pronouns as it fits the previous nouns) has an undying rage within him born of God only knows what ("God," as always, being defined simply as the unknown forces that seem to rally against a person that knows little of free will and self-fulfillment) and will be frozen in inaction. It is only when these unimaginative beasts see an event portrayed through some form of media in the popular culture that inspiration strikes them and they act out the event they mindlessly incorporated into their psyche and their rage. Other mindless automatons, the ones not filled with quite as much rage as the one that acted out, notice, in a stunning display of intellectual mimicry, that the perpetrated violence or chaos or destruction was incredibly similar to some overly exciting current piece of pop cultural jetsam (I use the term "jetsam" with particular care here). Thus the responsibility for the violence drops from the perpetrator and becomes the sole property of the artists that put the idea into the zeitgeist. Carrying this idea further, some believe that the government now uses the popular culture to prepare the masses for horrendous events that they themselves will author. They foreshadow the event with a proper amount of omniscient narration so that the populace sees the event not as reality but as just another twist in the action movie forever playing on their favorite media player. I must say, I find the conspiratorial idea behind predictive programming as juvenile as giggling over a fart joke. It is a waste of time and energy. People are, for the most part, idiots. They think they are thinking when, all too often, they are merely parroting. Believing that the government needs to prepare the mindless zombies for their catastrophic acts against their own subjects is believing that people are far more capable of knowing when they're being lied to in the first place. I assure you, they are not. A lie is the easiest thing to tell as long as you prepare it carefully with a pinch of the listener's own prejudices. People want to be deceived. It's just that simple.