I can’t really disagree with anything that you’ve written.
As I’ve said before, I don’t want to be involved with some cryptic Internet *thing* whose real goal I can’t know anything about.
One of the things that bothers me about everything in politics these days, especially online - and even here on FR - is the silly dichotomies that are created.
Nothing in life is ever ‘black or white’; most things fall somewhere in the middle gray region. But so many arguments, alliances, movements seem to force people into one camp or the other - or, at least, make them feel as if they MUST choose one or the other. And those ‘camps’ are always *created* by others who want to manipulate you - they don’t represent anything Real.
I just don’t buy into that kind of manipulation. ‘Reality’ for any of us, is very subjective. When it comes to how one should act or what one should support, reality comes down to what one’s own natural sense of right and wrong tells one; and everyone has that sense inside.
OF COURSE our bureaucracies are riddled with nasty people who, in some cases, are just out for themselves; and in others, they actually harbor fidelity to ideologies that are foreign and in opposition to our founding principles; but not everyone in all of these bureaucracies is ‘bad’.
There’s always going to be propaganda. People need to think for themselves, and follow their instincts; instead of allowing their fears and concerns to cause them to jump on some bandwagon that seems to promise them belonging, hope, security or ‘superior knowledge’.
It’s called ‘Life’. Suck it up, use your own mind, and don’t be anybody’s fool.
And that right there is the perfect summary of all I wrote. Well done! Dang I wish I could be more brief.