How much money has /our/ social operation cost; the millions out there that spread the word? You must understand that the world wouldn't be in the state that it is if we all had just left them alone; the slow boil would have continued as planned.
How much money has /our/ social operation cost; the millions out there that spread the word?
Thats not the question.
The question is, how much further could it have gone if the people backing it couldn't be bribed, threatened, sidelined or blackmailed?
The question you need to ask yourself, is how far down will you stare into the abyss to win?
The only people backing it are you and I. Any money involved was almost certainly for an anterior motive to sway the movement in a specific direction for someone's benefit -- and sway they tried MY GOD they tried. It didn't work though (not entirely), because mainstream is irrelevant now. The grip of control on shaping human thought has been shattered by the internet. There is no longer a common or shared identity among people; there is no TV or music that we all commonly enjoy.
The abyss? I have embraced it long ago.
If only you and I see it, that'll be enough. Eight upvotes, eight people saw it. More probably 80 or so. Ten or twenty threads like this, maybe 800-1600 people will have seen the idea, which means statistically, even if we never met, you'll know somebody who knows somebody, etc, that has heard this idea.
You seed an idea on the net, and if you push it enough, some people will try. It only takes a few of us persuing an idea like this for the right to be funded for years.
Then I'll drink to fortune and glory and be done with it.
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