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Spoofs desu's avatar

Hi Cynthia, Nicely written, as always.

It might be a Herculean task, but I am wondering if it would be worth exploring and/or connecting the work from Who Paid The Piper to this work you have been doing(?) The time period (1950/60s) of that work coincides nicely.

Could it be that the methods used by Cultural Congress to engage the non communist left were also to used to promote the ideas and spiritual perspective (if there is such a thing) that you are discussing? Could it be the 1960s counter culture was engineered in some respect? A kinda Great Reset gen 1? Which in turn, in a kinda bait and switch, segued into the hyper-consumerism of recent decades? If that is true, how do we segue way out of hyperconsumerism, with social economic consequences, etc.? Do we use the same methods for different ends? Like maybe a hyper exaggeration of a very minor crisis that can be used to control....

Okay, I am going off the rails here...nuff said...

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Matthew Ehret's avatar

An amazing composition! Looking forward to part two

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