Liberating Ourselves from Dystopia

03/13/2023

I have no interest in this kind of future, but the first step to liberating ourselves from certain dystopia is understanding and accepting that the government is always lying. It does not consider telling the truth a civic or moral duty; rather, it believes in disseminating "narratives" that are most beneficial to its own grip on power. Those who advance farthest in government are not honest people, and their trickle-down dishonesty corrupts everyone around them. In politics and war, the lowest common denominator tends to win out. There is a race to the bottom in which ruthless violence and abject immorality succeed while honor and principle are rejected.

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