I need to come up with some kind of priority system, because after I've replied to all the weird and bad faith criticisms, I find yours at the lowest end of the stack and they're usually far more interesting and engaging. So apologies if I seem a bit tapped out here.

And I do agree with you on most things. I don't think we are subjective, I am happy to call myself a fundamentalist. I think that, for instance, there was no subjectivity in the relationship between the Indians of Hispaniola and Christopher Columbus, they were ordinary people and he was a butcher.

And I see no issue with how things like that are objective, because there is an easy way to predicate objectivity, and that's to follow your conscience. We wouldn't need all this propaganda in the first place if people were subjective.

It exists because we all have pretty fundamentally similar needs and outlooks, and can be manipulated in very similar ways. They wouldn't need to come up with a bunch of excuses to bomb and plunder people in terrible wars if the public simply responded with "Eh. Each to their own."

Never underestimate your species. The government needed three centuries of research, one century of carefully orchestrated operations of military and corporate hegemony, and trillions in state and private funding in order to set up a system that makes us ignorant. It took the world's finest psychologists, neuroscientists, inventors and political advisors. Stupidity was we know it is a work of genius.