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Yep, people won, it made lives of tens of millions of people better, and I'm still mad about not having lived my childhood in a normal country. Museums that cover this history are useful to counter the ignorance about how it all looked and worked #HistoryMatters #CulturalAwareness #ChildhoodMemories #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountrynames.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Why Weak Societies Choose Tyranny The pinnacle of tyranny would be a system that allows politicians, elites, and bureaucrats to control a population without force or coercion because the people love their servitude. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, an eerily relatable dystopian novel, with this idea at the forefront. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, there is no overt oppression. The state does not have to stamp on human faces with its jackboots or erect an inescapable surveillance state. Rather, the people of Brave New World happily chain themselves with meaningless pleasure and distractions. The authorities do not rule through terror and rage, the central elements of 1984, but instead give the people everything they ever wanted. A pharmaceutical called Soma becomes the opiate of the masses. Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, likens it to Christianity without tears. While religion requires years of moral training, Soma allows citizens to achieve peace simply by swallowing tablets. It is the perfect escape from reality, a holiday from the facts. Lenina, the female counterpart to the protagonist Bernard, cannot comprehend why he refuses Soma, preferring discomfort to something that can remove it. When Bernard states, “I’d rather be myself, myself and nasty, not somebody else, however jolly,” Lenina sees this as a sort of pathology and repeatedly encourages him to take the wonder drug. Bernard explains, “I want to know what passion is.” He understands that there is more to life than merely being content, craving genuine experience, including suffering and intensity, rather than being emotionally regulated by the World State. Lenina’s bewilderment stems from her conditioning to regard unhappiness as a technical problem, encapsulated in the society’s common saying that “a gram is better than a damn.” The people of Brave New World are not captives but satisfied customers. Children are produced by the scientific state, relieving people of the responsibility of parenthood. This grants them the ability to engage in promiscuity, where everyone belongs to everyone else, while filling their free time with cheap entertainment and endless sporting events—what would be referred to as slop today. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell saw totalitarianism through the lens of fear, while Huxley saw it through pleasure. There was no need to ban a book in Brave New Worldbecause there was no one who wanted to read one. An abundance of low-quality information rendered censorship unnecessary because no one could hear the truth through all the noise. Huxley threw shade at civil libertarians who passionately opposed tyranny because they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. Humanity in its rawest form is portrayed by John the Savage, an outsider free from the World State’s conditioning. Upon coming face-to-face with this spiritually neutered society, he completely rejects it: “I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.” Huxley’s dystopia is not imposed on an unwilling population but instead requested by a hollow one. Which leads us to the question: How do people become so weak that they get on their knees and beg for totalitarianism? Good times make bad times possible. Once a certain level of luxury and safety is achieved, people start to resemble the hobbits from the Shire. They are so far removed from evil that they forget it even exists and become defenseless in the face of it. Andrew Lobaczewski, who studied the psychology of totalitarianism from inside Poland’s communist takeover, wrote: “During good times, people progressively lose sight of the need for profound reflection. They lose the capacity to differentiate human nature, and emotion begins to dominate intellect. Once a critical mass starts operating on the pleasure principle, any excess mental effort seems like pointless labor.” Lobaczewski warned that it is not as simple as some people losing the ability to think rationally. It is worse, because those people then shame anyone capable of doing so. A clever, liberal, and merry individual is a good sport. A more far-sighted person predicting dire results becomes a wet blanket, a killjoy. The ability to have uncomfortable conversations without emotion taking over is, in Lobaczewski’s view, an indicator of whether a society’s future will be good or bad. It is easier to think about pleasant things. This leads people to eliminate any data or facts that cause them discomfort. That becomes a habit and eventually a custom accepted by society at large. Once the general populace accepts that inconvenient truths should be left unsaid, it becomes incapable of reaching correct conclusions. After all, how could you ever describe a picture that you refuse to look at? “Catastrophe waits in the wings of the communities that lose the capacity for psychological reason and moral criticism,” Lobaczewski wrote. “It is on the other side of this weakening of thought that the processes of the generation of evil are intensified at every social scale until they give rise to bad times.” It is precisely man’s dreams of happiness that can lead to chaos and suffering. This hedonistic view of happiness contains the seeds of misery, feeding the eternal cycle whereby good times give birth to bad times. Friedrich Nietzsche viewed socialism as demanding comfort for the greatest number of people possible. To question whether it is good for the masses to live in comfort has become a form of heresy. This reveals the spiritual atrophy that so many suffer from. Considering only the weak believe comfort to be a virtue, it is what Carl Jung would describe as the infantile dream state of mass dependency: the desire to gently slip back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care. Except this lack of friction has consequences. The perfect state destroys the soil in which great intellect grows. Genius, struggle, passion, strength, and wisdom are required to build a safe and abundant society. Yet once a certain level of comfort is achieved, it can destroy the very virtues required to obtain it. Nietzsche observed that it is the warmest heart that aims to alleviate suffering and hardship but fails to realize that it thereby wills the destruction of its own foundation. Comfort breeds mediocrity, which is then called good. Small people want one thing above all: that no one hurt them. We have taken this pathology to such a degree that we now obsess over hurt feelings and call this virtue. Pleasure, in its proper place, is a byproduct of meaningful goals, not a goal in itself. Aristotle saw that pleasure and comfort distort perception and proper judgment. While they do not cause us to misjudge something like geometry or mathematics, they can destroy our ability to decide what is worth pursuing and, therefore, what to do. Consider The Odyssey. Homer depicts Odysseus’ men on the island of the Lotus-Eaters, where they taste the fruit and lose all desire to go home. Much like Huxley’s Brave New World, they are not imprisoned. Rather, they simply stop wanting anything more. Odysseus has to drag his men back to the ships while they weep to stay. This is what comfort can do to men. It empties them of purpose. We intuitively understand this but fail to apply it to our own lives. We must make the same choice as Odysseus when he refuses Calypso’s offer of endless comfort and immortality. He knows she is more beautiful than his wife Penelope waiting at home. He knows that he and Penelope will grow old and die, a fate he could avoid by staying with Calypso. No one who reads these stories wishes he had stayed. We want him to choose the hard way home because if he took the offer, he would stop being admirable. Yet staying is exactly what our modern society asks of us. We are told that the island is the good life. But what happens to the man who caves to this temptation? In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche imagines a risk-averse society taken to its logical endpoint. The elimination of all struggle produces a man so diminished that he fails to possess even self-contempt or higher aspiration. Safety and sameness become the highest goals, creating “no shepherd in one herd.” Anyone who seeks to be anything more than normal becomes an aberration to be dealt with. Or, as Nietzsche puts it, they have “made the wolf a dog in man himself, man’s best domestic animal.”

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As was inevitable, the Arday Affair is moving on from the examination of one fabulist and plagiarist to the rot that has consumed much of the higher-education sector. These clowns oversee the step from childhood to adulthood for approaching half of all young people - and pretty #HigherEd #ArdayAffair #Plagiarism #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

As was inevitable, the Arday Affair is moving on from the examination of one fabulist and plagiarist to the rot that has consumed much of the higher-education sector. These clowns oversee the step from childhood to adulthood for approaching half of all young people - and pretty #HigherEducation #Accountability #EducationReform #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Vaccine Policy by Vanity In the Trump administration’s latest attempt to turn public health into a culture-war dispute, childhood vaccination has become the latest prop. On 10 August, Donald Trump signed an executive order that recasts protection against 11 diseases as the #VaccinePolicy #PublicHealth #TrumpAdministration #US

WOW. À LIRE ABSOLUMENT... 👇😳 WILLIAN PACHO 🇪🇨SE CONFIE SUR SON ENFANCE, ET LA VIE DIFFICILE QU'IL MENAIT AUX CÔTÉS DE SA MAMAN, SEULE POUR ÉLEVER SES ENFANTS : « Mon papa, il est parti quand je suis né. (...) Les matins, ma maman gérait un stand de nourriture dans le collège de ma sœur. Elle faisait des empanadas et des plats comme ça. Les nuits, elle gagnait encore un peu plus d’argent en nettoyant les vêtements de quelques voisins. A cette époque-là, il n’y avait pas de machine à laver. ON LAVAIT TOUT À LA MAIN. Et ensuite, il y avait les cochons... 🐖 On vivait au pied de la colline, derrière la rivière, et nous avions une petite ferme dans le jardin. Un genre de ferme improvisée... Quand les temps étaient durs, on avait des poules maigres. Quand les choses allaient mieux, c’était des cochons. Et qu’est ce qu’il y avait à manger pour les porcs ? Les restes. Les déchets. Un travail sale. Et devine qui devait nourrir les cochons ? “Willian! Maintenannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnt!!!!” J’allais taper aux portes de tous les voisins et ils sortaient avec leurs fonds de marmite et leurs poubelles. 🗑️ J’avais du riz jusqu’au coude en cherchant les os. Mon Dieu que ça sentait mauvais. Surtout l’été... Au fur et à mesure que je grandissais, ça devenait difficile, parce que J'ENTENDAIS LES AUTRES ENFANTS SE MOQUER DE MOI. Les adultes pouvaient même être pires. Après avoir nettoyé la porcherie, on sentait parfois mauvais. JE LE RESSENTAIS DANS LE REGARD DE CERTAINS. Ça te marque. » 📰 The Players Tribune #Inspiration #Resilience #ChildhoodStory

Pošta pro tebe - edice reálný život. 😎 1/4 Máma mě vychovávala sama. O otci jsem věděla jen to, co bylo v rodný listu. Neviděla jsem jeho fotku, netuším, jak vypadá, jestli žije. Doma se o něm nemluvilo a popravdě, nikdy mě to netrápilo, měla jsem hezký dětství a mužská figura https://t.co/Y8pkLSJec3 #realLife #childhood #family

Persistent exposure to low household income and financial hardships adversity impact cognitive performance by midlife and later-life brain atrophy, with larger effects for men, those from disadvantaged childhoods, and individuals with greater genetic risk https://t.co/9nXxNUgSg8 #MentalHealth #IncomeInequality #CognitiveDecline #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial in US that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as US government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back — a resurgence of deadly childhood plagues https://t.co/LeNiBjUzUP #VaccinesSaveLives #PublicHealth #ChildhoodImmunization #US

The likelihood of experiencing violent victimization has a surprisingly high heritability, which drops from 70% in childhood to 40–44% in adolescence and adulthood. Representative victim surveys suggest that approximately 1–4% of populations experience violence #ViolencePrevention #Heritability #Victimization #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

US officially recorded more measles cases this year than in all of 2025, making 2026 the worst for measles in 35 years. Falling childhood vaccination rates, led by MAGAs, left more mostly Conservative communities vulnerable to sustained outbreaks https://t.co/J7MoOExrY8 #MeaslesOutbreak #Vaccination #PublicHealth #US