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“Maybe my government is actually in the wrong here and is just lying and manipulating to advance its own interests?” should be a much more common thought. It’s a line of inquiry that should be taught to schoolchildren. It is by design that it doesn’t occur to people more often.(caitlinjohnstone.com)

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Anman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

Your line of inquiry is wrong. They purposely do not want to teach these things in school. There is no "we should do this" to better something along these lines, because that is not how our governments want things to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

[deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

Not so funny, all the political adds in my state of the union we label the USA, do not advertise a running platform of "Absolutely No Nuclear War if I get elected." I see mud slinging adds about abortions, economics etcetera plethora of anything but mushroom clouds. No words platform supporting descriptions of no more humans on Earth due to nuclear war.

[deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

R. Buckminster Fuller creates a dymaxion map covering a college basketball court. The map's scale places Mr. Fullers eye as he walks across the basketball court at the hight of low orbit satellites.

https://estherhunziker.net/miscellaneous/dymaxion/index.html

At the bottom of the page linked above you can see him walking on his map. The entire link gives a great explanation of his dymaxion map.

During his lecture to these college students, walking his map. He shows them a box of tiddlywinks containing as many plastic disks as there where Nuclear bombs on planet Earth on the day of his lecture. The area of one tiddlywink disk matches by scale to the map as the area of Earth one nuclear bomb would destroy. He instructs helpers to distribute all the plastic disks along all coast lines of Earth. The little black plastic bombed out areas covered every beach line on Earth.

Maybe, this is what we are to teach our children...you tell me.

...create a great day...

mifu 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

By extension we might say: do not believe anything your government tells you.