Good post. I get a lot of what you mean in this. I always thought selecting Barabbas had more to do with the influence of the authority figures of that day (same problem we have today), but I'd never heard the idea that he was a revolutionary or anything along those lines.
Other than that, very interesting concept. We do tend to look to solutions from man. It's been a long and weird time. Hopefully the results you see are the ones we'll all see soon.
Yeah, he gives some people a feeling of being in the know, which they like. I think he has great insights on certain things too. At the same time, I think he's resigned to the idea that the world will have ended in 10 years time and I don't think that's the case at all. With that perspective, one is destined to be a bit of a doomer and to expect things to continue to get worse.
The mainstream tends not to mind end times type predictions because they generally don't come true on the timeframe expected, which makes us all look unhinged and inaccurate.
To be fair, he has every right to doom. We get bad news, followed by worse news, over and over again. It's looking rough out there and he's a practical guy who also happens to think we're approaching the biblical end of the world, so his outlook is appropriate for his perspective.
That said, I don't think we're at the end of the world and I do hope and pray that people wake up and we get through this and come out better off, so my perspective is different than his, but I do understand why he and many others are of that mentality.
Even if it all reversed at this minute, the damage already done will take years to undo. People need to be aware of that at this point.
You pretty much nailed it with: not as gullible to degeneracy but more naive to authority. Very few people could comprehend back then that insidious and powerful people would actively work towards the destruction of what is good, true and beautiful. You can't blame them for not imagining that, because it is outside of what the majority of us can even actually comprehend as being a motivating factor to life lol.
That said, you're right. So much about this time period absolutely sucks. But at the same time, to have any real shot of fixing these problems, their causes need to be layed bare. Only in these times is that really possible.
In a surprising turn of events, that's probably part of why it degenerated. The idea that people can't talk politics allowed the evil to get in there and take over all positions of authority with people being hesitant to take a stance on the subject.
It's good in a lot of ways that that whole concept is gone now. The downside is that only far leftist idiotic viewpoints are accepted (generally) in public because our nation's silence also allowed the media to be fully taken over to the point where it exists only to propagandize leftist viewpoints. The upside is that truth is coming out more and more each day.
I was into metal when I was younger and knew a lot of people who people would have called "emo" or scene kids or whatever, which was kind of the precursor to hipster and yeah, I'd definitely agree.
That said, back in that pre-2010 era it was more about the music than anything. Once the music became cool, it attracted a bunch of follower type people who just get into the image. Once the metal thing passed, they turned into hipsters and now woke activists, because they really do just follow the trends.
I took some sociology and psychology and found them both to be very much in lockstep with the current nonsense inverted world that the brainwashed morons are trying to force on us all. There were some interesting studies back in the day, but the meaning is mostly lost on these people because they are generally pseudo intellectuals who feel smart by repeating the conclusions others have reached before them.
That said, I am convinced that there is a more true psychology/sociology that is among the most important of subjects in bringing people in line and steering them towards their own destruction willingly.
Seems like there's two different ideas here: one is that the vaxxers are obedient to authority and not creative and the second is that it was dumb that some did it to keep their jobs and feed their families.
For the first one, you don't want a tribe with all chiefs. A group with all alphas would be chaos. You need some people who just want to play roles, but I get what you're saying.
For the second idea, I understand why people did it. Even though it sucked and it made things harder for those of us who didn't, I still get that not all of them had access to the info we did and in general just not everyone is discerning or high IQ. Doesn't necessarily mean they're bad though, as long as they didn't try to force their obedience on others.
That said, I don't wish I'll on them, but I agree with you - it was a bad decision all around, and one that I bet many people wish they could take back.