• Shikadi@wirebase.org
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    I mean, I think Hitler committed worse crimes, just saying. And DuPont. And a lot of other companies/people.

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      None of them fucked up billions of people’s perceptions to the point people only now chase material pleasure like lab rats, and due to that people have become isolated individualists.

      Since you have chosen an emotionally touchy example to downplay this, Hitler’s crime was less worse than USA’s human psychology abuse en masse, just going off the number scale of 6 million deaths versus atleast 2 billion people who are depressed, lonely, have debts and are unhappy in life. The effects of this abuse have continued into this century and will continue to the next century and beyond.

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        I think attributing that to the use of color is a dramatic over simplification. The capitalization of human psychology stems from one thing and one thing only, our current form of capitalism which prioritizes maximizing short term shareholder return above all else, with long term shareholder return coming in second.

        Also, if you’re not going to let me pull the Hitler card in this situation, I can just pull the slavery card. What’s worse, a population with a high rate of depression, or a population with a high rate of literally a slave? (We have that too in the US because forced prison labor is a thing and is considered constitutional at the moment)

        Or what about when entire ancient civilizations had their history erased when conquered?

        Or what North Korea is right now?

        Like, seriously, you’re telling me the use of bright colors is the worst crime ever committed against humanity? We’ve been using colors for thousands of years, you could at least pick something like Sugar that’s actually addictive and causes disease and depression. Or cigarettes which also do that while also fostering poverty cycles. I could come up with so many things worse than using colors.

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          Yeah Christ, the complaint here is overstimulation and the capitalization/commercialization of peoples’ attention spans, a topic which spans far greater breadth than just “colors”. What a weird specific aspect to zero in on. I don’t disagree that colors attribute to the issue but man, OP needs to take a step back and huff into a paper bag.

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          Also, if you’re not going to let me pull the Hitler card in this situation, I can just pull the slavery card.

          Your argument is very cheap, hollow and meritless since you do want to engage in these tactics.