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« on: June 01, 2023, 08:04:28 pm »
And then there's the other side. As, an example, we have a call-in hotline in our state where you can rat people out for what you perceive to be poor driving. There is no financial reward. You don't even get a gold star and a happy face from the faceless bureaucracy.
No, you simply get the satisfaction of going full Karen/Kyle on someone, and fucking up their day, and a fleeting illusion that you, too, are an important part of the system. For a few seconds you were the boot, which isn't as cool as wearing the boot, but is way better than being on the wrong end of the boot. You get to feel that you had control over someone else's destiny, even if you can't control your own. So call in that bastard that you didn't manage to block from his exit ramp and be the boot today.
"COMPLIANCE BRINGS THE CHANCE OF NON-MECHANICAL SEXUAL GRATIFICATION." says the billboard? Really? Not in so many words, but if you look at those damn things long enough, that's exactly what it's telling you. And that's what the dial-a-snitch thing does. It gives stupid humans a way of generating dopamine without getting all sweaty. And that's ALL you have to do to keep the majority of the humans under control and even actively on the side of The Machine.
This is what people want. The Machine still advertises it, which is goofy since they don't have to anymore, but they still do it.
Oh, and they're too busy keeping an eye on you dissidents to bother watching our home-grown Nazi population. So toe the line.