Holy shit, the ruling class haven’t progressed from Nazi pseudoscience at all. These are some of the most powerful people on Earth and they’re barely smarter than cave people that think their own shadows are ghosts.

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  • This isn’t at all a unique take. I’m old enough to remember in the 90s/2000s hippie parents of low support autistic children came up with the name “indigo child” to paint their needs snd struggles as being particularly sentitive/attuned to the supernatural.

    It was awfully convenient for them, made them feel special while they ignored their child’s needs.

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      And then there was that weird game Indigo Prophecy by Quantic Dream that was based on that woo woo nonsense.

      I actually played through the whole thing and it was interesting enough to keep me engaged enough to finish it but man that shit is wild. Pretty sure the dev is some kind of crypto fascist or at least incidentally adjacent.

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      It’s wild though because they’ve had 30+ years of research they could easily just look up to find out how incorrect their weird pseudoscience is. These guys have all the time and money in the world and yet they’re so ingnorant of the very world they have so much sway over.

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        It’s more fun in that cursed, desperate, way. They have no need to actually ever be correct as their money doesn’t care about their opinions, and they’re insulated from corrective consequences so they can just enjoy incoherency without even having to be original about their fantasies.

        Engaging with reality will just tell them they suck, and that they’re not above the world.

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    One time when I was a kid I sat in the courtyard of this old church staring unblinking trying to focus my mind hard enough to move a leaf for nearly an hour. It didn’t work but I did kinda figure out meditation in the process lol.

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    Re: Re: Very important, major science breakthrough!!!

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    Re: Re: Re: Very important, major science breakthrough!!!

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    What if you took an email that feasibly happened in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam but wrote it in worse English than that “Captain Quattro, he is a CHAR” letter from the show?

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    Bourgeoise produce the antithesis of culture. A culture incapable of self-awareness.

    This is what makes them believe in psychic powers. imo. They are incapable of seeing their own rigidness, but because neurodivergent children must become self-aware, if they are to ever fit within the neurotypical world, it “naturally” makes us more likely to be self-aware and can be mistaken for future sight, when this “future sight” is simply pattern matching and probability estimates.

    This is likely where the whole “gifted child” idea even comes from. The children aren’t gifted, the world is ruled by ignoble foolish pigs.

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    Really just tells you that Epstein and his buddies weren’t the men with the plans or brains.

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    Is it really true that in the West rich people are less skeptical of psychic things than poor people?

    I’ve heard this once before on Hexbear.

    Most places it’s the opposite – poor people are comfortable ideas like ghosts, telepathy, astrology, and the rich people look down their noses at that with a sort of ‘Western scientific’ attitude.

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      I’d say that general woo stuff is very common among the poor. Stuff like astrology and ghosts and such. But I think there’s a subset of rich people who really want to believe that they’re rich because they’re special and insightful and know stuff we plebs don’t know, and that fuels some other types of woo that are less common down here.

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      Anecdotally, I’ve seen scammy fortune teller signs in poor places, and the poorer, the greater the chance I see one. It’s a tragic symbiosis – no way to make money to live or leave turns people to prey on others’ desperate hopes and ignorance, and that same need for hope draws in the ignorant. Maybe it’s the same reason people play the lottery when they know the odds of winning are ridiculously low… People are paying for hope and a temporary fantasy.