Advocacy for Thought

The contemporary political apparatus requires 3 things to function: disinformation, apathy, and shallow thought. The first is foremost, with the latter 2 being its flank guards; if you break apathy and shallow thought, the propagation and efficacy of disinformation crumbles. One can reason that either apathy or shallow thought can be broken by the other, as an organism caring about an issue (ideally the one providing its invisible constraints) for an extended period of time will eventually defeat shallow thought as the organism desires to learn more, and a deep thought on a matter eventually feeds into at the very least personal desires for freedom. What prevents the organism from falling prey to one of these pillars and toppling the whole construct, then, is of utmost importance; in the modern landscape, this construct is upheld by essentially not allowing one to think. Ignoring the typical and often superfluous or actively detrimental work that people are forced to occupy themselves with, the web is what enables this the most. By occupying one's attention for long periods of inactivity, it effectively stifles the brain's natural tendency to consider the information that it has been exposed to, limiting diversity of thought and making disinformation and subsequent control more effective than it would otherwise be. The ultimate challenge to the construct, then, is true idleness; that is, time during which the subject has complete mental faculties and also has nothing with which to occupy themselves. My call to action, then, is this: don't go pick up a book or listen to music or consume; grab a notebook, sit down, and think.

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