See my comment "above".
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19747741
We can't "cure" racism, misogyny and a boatload of other delusions in finite time, but we can help each other survive and grow and recoup our democracy.
We are dealing with a cult that exhibits every single sign of addictive behavior. I re-reviewed two books by Anne Wilson Schaef yesterday on "The Addictive Organization" and "When Society Becomes an Addict".
Despite the encouragement below, it will take time to change the corrosive culture, and we need to plant the seeds of that.
Being, a techie, I have long believed that tech could help liberate people, as it helped me, but it got into many wrong (sociopathic and greedy) hands, and I found that the "best" tech solutions are ones that try to undo what the sociopaths have wrought, in a libertarian culture of no limits, and everyone else be damned and exploited.
I will try to counter this machine in gentle but firm ways,
while helping, as I have tried here, to collect and share and create? resources to help compassionate people survive, unite, and thrive.
Longer term, rob Devadatta of his followers by truth and example, for those who suffer in the present, and for Devadatta's own enlightenment, however far off.
https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/disciples15/
"Good part" begins at mark 109, though it's all a good read.
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