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[[File:Pacifier.jpg|alt=Pacifier|thumb|Companies will always have a solution to sell even if it is not the solution.]] | [[File:Pacifier.jpg|alt=Pacifier|thumb|Companies will always have a solution to sell even if it is not the solution.]] | ||
''' | '''We try''' '''to meet our every need''' '''however''' '''there is no satiety, only more want. This''' '''reflects our''' '''most fundamental [[Neurochemistry|neurochemical]] pathways that have been created to make us productive. In society our technologies have met our every need apart from pacification from want, they are now pacifying us from reacting to crises. Movies have us believe that there is one villain Rothchilds, Illuminati, Darth Vader... but in fact, it is the [[Machines|machine]] itself.''' | ||
== Medical Pacification == | == Medical Pacification == | ||
If we cannot pacifiy oursleves with our environment we ask help from our Asking for help and all that is available are SSRIs/MAOI/Antipsychotics which are essentially sedatives | |||
Asking for help and all that is available are SSRIs/MAOI/Antipsychotics which are essentially sedatives | |||
== Genetic Pacification == | == Genetic Pacification == | ||
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== Cultural Pacification == | == Cultural Pacification == | ||
Static media, computer games, smartphones are not unlike adult pacifiers.<ref>Shiri Melumad, Michel Tuan Pham, The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology, ''Journal of Consumer Research'', Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 237–255, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa005</nowiki></ref> Whilst a baby will have a need for milk and the mother's teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as our inventions provide an escape for our warriors? | Static media, antidepressants, computer games, smartphones are not unlike adult pacifiers.<ref>Shiri Melumad, Michel Tuan Pham, The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology, ''Journal of Consumer Research'', Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 237–255, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa005</nowiki></ref> Whilst a baby will have a need for milk and the mother's teat, adults have more complicated desires. Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occured as our inventions provide an escape for our warriors? | ||
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