@witix You don't understand. Hoboken to Newark Liberty International Airport, November 2022. That taxi driver is the baseline for my political belief system.
@ErikUden@mastodon.de that sounds like a weird way to shape your ideological beliefs but hey!
Whatever gets you on the "not being a dipshit without empathy" path!
@getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz @ErikUden@mastodon.de really need to go to Greece someday I guess
@getimiskon @ErikUden @witix That's why they're giving them 6 days a week work now. To stop them from thinking.
@ErikUden “If you have a ‘good’ education, you’ve gone to the best schools, you have internalized the understanding that there’s certain things it just wouldn’t do to say — and I think we can add to that, it wouldn’t do to think. And that’s a powerful mechanism. So, there are things you just don’t think, and you don’t say. That’s the result of effective education, effective indoctrination. If people — many people — don’t succumb to it, what happens to them? Well, I’ll tell you a story: I was in Sweden a couple years ago, and I noticed that taxi drivers were being very friendly, much more than I expected. And finally I asked one of them, ‘Why’s everyone being so nice?’ He pulled out a T-shirt he said every taxi driver has, and the T-shirt had a picture of me and a quote in Swedish of something I’d said once when I was asked, ‘What happens to people of independent mind?’ And I said, ‘They become taxi drivers.’”
- Noam Chomsky
@Sofie_unlabeled @burnoutqueen yeah, flowers wither and weeds live on forever.
@ErikUden @Sofie_unlabeled he is still alive! His obituary was taken down after his wife confirmed that he was in fact still alive.
@burnoutqueen lol what, I didn't even follow this whole thing. Crazy. How does that even happen???