Comment by TheOtherHobbes
5 days ago
>In reality, the group has little power over you as an individual.
I'm sure everyone in Ukraine is delighted that the nightly air raids are a mere narrative device, and they can choose to opt out of them by pretending hard.
They can leave! Escape the country through some forest.
And yes, drones are a kind of tangible narrative device. If people didn't believe the narrative, they would just have 'surrendered' on day one of the war and the drones would never have been sent. They're just not smart enough and too proud.
French people are the smartest in that respect. Look at how many times they surrendered and look at how big France is still. France has territories all over the world and a dominant culture. They lost essentially every major war but haven't lost a thing in practice.
I wonder if Germans even learned the lesson yet... They have plenty of evidence to look at in their case. They're smart but also a bit gullible and their pride gets in the way. Heck, even a backward country like Iraq or Afghanistan can lose a war to the world's #1 superpower and still manage to keep everything.
How can anyone see this and believe that fighting a war makes sense? Most people are retarded and gullible.