In James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," the phrase "Hush! Caution! Echoland! shall be theirs for ollaves" appears in Book I, Chapter I.

Agreed, it is man elevating themselves to the level of God by developing their own morality.

Moses and a "burning bush" was a man using creative science fiction of "space aliens beamed down this message" (like the Monolyth being beamed down to apes in the science fiction film "2001 A Space Odyssey" in year 1968).

The most creative science fiction storytelling sets morality, Donald Trump has turned the White House into a fiction media venue for all the world stage, with Elon Musk Twitter owner broadcasting fiction content constantly.

'But the dance was never dropped,' Miss Erdman adds. 'Originally it was the dance of Anna Livia Plurabelle. She's Finnegan's wife, but she really embodies all women of every kind. And it was going to be an evening of those images: the young girl, the daughter, the old crone, the seductive Maggies, the wife, the river and the rain, Belinda the hen. Those were the main ideas, anyway - all Anna Livia. And in each one I was searching for movement themes that would shape the body. These were abstract themes all coming together in one feminine principle, but they were also independent characters. Then I showed them to Teiji Ito, our composer, and he decided on what wonderful sounds to use -such instruments as Japanese flutes, bells, shells, marimbala, accordion and violin.'

Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.

Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.

We need to make a conscious effort, painful conscious effort, to come together in democracy.

"thirdly, of course, there is the individual who rises above these and becomes the conscious choice maker. Less you think this kind of person has a wonderful time all the time... let me assure you that it is a very difficult path. Why?" "And to be conscious hurts, it hurts like heck, I might even say it hurts like Hell." - Dr. Stephan A Hoeller ... https://youtu.be/08R1kPdfrHA?t=4265

If not us, than who?

"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." - Carl Sagan

If not us, than who?

Nobody is gong to save us from our own selves. We exploded our population to 8 billion people and we are almost all able to connect, hope is people can see good common ground instead of where we are heading at the moment hate each other as common ground.

There are good signals and leadership, people have to favor it. [email protected]

Forgive me for thinking I was as memorable to you as you to me.

These days I can barely remember my own self in all the mass mind / group think concerns I have.

I said I choose my illusions. Like you with the Great Seal.

I wasn't given much choice, perhaps not as in bad shape as someone born in 2020 in Palestine who can't escape, but in our own way technology and history imprison us. What's my nightmare is how many people seem to enjoy defeating other people and building technologies that empower our self-destruction.

I find no goodness in my society around me marching towards something worse than 1937 Germany. There are much better ways to learn and make mistakes than to build systems and devices of wrecking goodness.

We could be learning, and teaching, and sharing much better things....

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You are in no position to lecture me on morality.

I'm not lecturing you on it. I'd rather you go away and stop commenting to me.

The morality problem is global. People can not tell "good from bad", which is the meaning of the word "morality".

People think ELon Musk's ideas about empathy are good, for example.

You clearly can’t see the hypocrisy.

You believe that Lemmy conveys what I understand and see. You have a media ecology literacy problem. I suggest you study Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman. [email protected] community on Lemmy for that.

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Santa and Easter Bunny we indoctrinate people into at a young age and we don't have trouble explaining that they are fiction.... still are useful stories.