Chaos

[Look-Up!]

News as entertainment has a lot to answer for. Also as unbelievable as this sounds, there is loads of people who watch fake documentaries shows like Ancient Aliens and a host of others that appear on discovery channel or national geographic and believe they are real critical shows, not realising that its an entertainment show. Some of them are your friends and family. Mental.

Yeah news is gone the way of infotainment for a lot of companies. Or at least it's more important to be first with the news than to be accurate. That's what pays in today's world.

[Franko]

To me it feels like destabilization of populations in the west is all part of the plan. I don't see one western country trying to calm 'the chaos' down or look as if they are doing the bidding of their electorate. Uniparties in every country now. A hidden hand has got our politicians and main stream journalism by the balls. Its modern day communism we're lurching toward. 

Honestly this is batshit crazy.

There is no "plan". There is no "hidden hand". It's just a common understanding among experienced politicians an understanding / acceptance that if your country has an election every 5 years, then you spend 4 years milking it dry for you and your friends, then 1 year saying whatever the f**k it takes, an attempt to go again.

It's just neoliberalism fulfilling itself. Nobody owns it. Nobody directs it.

Exactly correct.

Who is this hidden hand and what is their goal?  If you were to believe some of the theories, there's an overarching bunch of paedophiles trying to attain some sort of paedophilic utopia.  WTF?

There is just a bunch of different people vying for power and using whatever means possible to achieve it and hold on to it.

Sometimes their interests will align and give the impression that they are all in cahoots, other times they won't.

[thewobbler]

Substandard - the aging thing definitely matters.

There's a reason why everyone could so quickly identify with "old man yells at cloud" when the Simpsons made it famous; we are all familiar with older men going on endless, aimless rants about almost everything.

And I would think the crux of it is that when you have an older family and you ponder where life is taking them, you can't help sometimes wondering why we bother. It's not so much that the "game is rigged", as the game is too complicated to understand, and it's easier to point the finger at both those who've tried to mould the world, and to those who've managed to stockpile unfathomable material wealth.