Operation Stay At Home is Underway in Australia
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If these restrictions were a plot point in a dystopian movie the audience would laugh at how over the top it was.
This is what really gets me. The evil is plain to see and we have generations of people who've been trained to snarl at it whenever it's presented in film but who are somehow unable to recognize it playing out in their own lives. It's revolting.
This reminds me of a conservation I was having with someone about an old movie villain... not an over-the-top super villain, but the rich, incestuous kind. The other person was talking about how so much more evil it is when the person is a relatable, realistic figure, and how people do absolutely nothing to stop that kind of evil in real life because it's not so apparent, but that maybe if people were more aware they would take the necessary action to bring them to justice
This is where I interjected and brought up how even in real life, when people are made aware of such villains, they make excuses and ignore it. I pointed to Hunter Biden, and linked to them the site that catalogs his videos and screenshots from his laptop where he's engaged in illegal activity, similar to the very movie villain we were discussing. Hilariously enough, the person (a Liberal), hand-waves Hunter's transgressions away, saying "I found an article on Snopes that says none of that is true." I told him to look at the link and see the photos/videos for himself and he said "I'm not looking at anything that might get the FBI after me. But I'll trust Snopes".
So you're 100% correct. Some people are so stupid and blind that even when it's obvious to see, they would rather stick their head in the sand rather than disrupt their blissfully ignorant worldview.
This is also why I laugh whenever someone starts going on about how important the truth is to them and how much they value it, as if it's some ice cream cone they really like. Anyone who has encountered Truth knows it to be a cripplingly heavy burden. It is something to be valued but it is not something the majority of people actually seek. Most simply want the social approval of being a Good Person Who Values the Truth. The weight of actually doing so would break each and every one of these shallow fools.
Around 2018-2019 I started to see people question the results of the Milgram Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment, claiming the experiments were flawed and difficult to replicate. The implication being (I guess) that people wouldn't really act like that outside of an experimental scenario.
I haven't heard anyone try to make those arguments recently.
<group of friends exiting the theater>
"Hahaha that was such a good movie. I'm glad that we don't live in such a dystopian nightmare, right? We would fight back right?"
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"Right?"
<sad self reflection>