When using the Broken Record method, think K.I.S.S. for quick and dirty media strategy: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Then, repeat those short phrases or sentences frequently.
Themes to Broken Record for 2022 (and beyond):
- Fairness vs. Hierarchy
- Equality vs. Supremacy
- People vs. Property
- Poor vs. Rich
- Democracy vs. Autocracy
- Diversity vs. Homogeneity
- Freedom vs. Totalitarianism — spoiler alert: totalitarianism sucks
- Proteanism vs. Cultism
- Love vs. Hate
- Peace vs. War
Fascism / Authoritarianism warnings
Optimism > Pessimism
Buddhism and Stoicism were hopefully about humanity — these were philosophies that placed humans squarely at the center of an ever-expanding self-awareness journey that we could all commit to as a matter of personal growth. The locus of control was inside the individual.
Christianity changed all that. Now the locus of control was outside of a person — it resided with Jesus and, in turn, God. Considering their pernicious absence on the face of the planet however, numerous human beings claimed to have the bat phone to God, by which to issue allegedly celestial orders to others. The game of telephone always seemed to conspicuously privilege the claimant — God always coincidentally seemed to have great things in mind for the interlocutor, and not much concern for the rest of His creation.
The religious philosophies of Luther and Calvin would debase the popular conception of humanity even further, teaching that no amount of self-humiliation could get us low enough to match our undeservedness — and yet we ought to exhaust ourselves trying to prove it to be the case nonetheless. Under the edicts of the Protestant work ethic, one needs always to be consumed by frantic activity in order to appear worthy of God’s salvation — despite the fact that the core precept of predestination means that none of your obsessive ablutions can actually move the needle. Do it anyway — drop and give Calvin a Moral 20!
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