Cultural and technological change both happen because people *decide they should*. It’s also a fact that many people resign themselves to believing otherwise because of a fatalistic mythos. Both of these facts function together to create mind slaves of modern people.
Nothing about this paradox absolves *any* particular person of the responsibility of decision for change within their purview. We decide even when we believe we cannot decide. That’s what makes modern regimes of iniquity work.
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Shufei đź«
In response to this postElites in modern societies demand teleological fatalism from all of us. “Progress just happens this way”. “The market forces decide”. “That’s just the way it is”. The ideology of modernity depends on both mass compliance and mass enthusiasm. Manufacture of consent. This does not change the fact that *people decide which way events go*.
Thus the difference between a free actor and an ideologically bound fatalistic peon is one of *perception and belief*. Resources are secondary.
The position of a true elite is one of being granted license to free decision. Unlicensed free decisions are suppressed. But that *does not relieve the repressed person from responsibility* of decision, because agency is prior to context.
Agency is always ontologically prior. The sooner we all accept this axiom, the better, as it removes the yokes of fatalism upon which elites depend to maintain regimes of compliance.
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