Fair Warning, Rogue Nation

[TheRedneck]

Perhaps the only thing that killed ATS was human nature. Perhaps they started to believe there own propaganda. ATS was never at the cutting edge, fighting dark forces and under attack. It was the owner and MODs who killed ATS. There was illness at the top or near it, the illness spread and the end result was the mess that ATS became.
I was shown some texts written by MODs  and in my opinion they were starting to become detached from reality. No dark evil forces (governments)  secret meeting behind locked doors on how to keep fighting the "things" that were out to destroy ATS, its own madness killed it.
Advertisement firms watch very carefully where they advertise, the madness was seen and they started to pull away. This only fed the illness at ATS, 
"We have secret knowledge, this is why the "government" is trying to destroy us" It can never be ATS fault always some one elses.
Bad management, paranoia the need to be important, human nature, and mental illness killed ATS.
Thats what I think happened, but its only what I think, its no more valid or non valid than anyone's else.

Human nature was the weapon they wielded. A powerful weapon it is, when wielded properly.

But no, the issue was not solely with management. To some degree, certainly, as all management everywhere is composed of humans and humans are imperfect critters. But the attack came from within the membership. We turned on each other instead of turning on those weaponizing our own human nature against us. The issues you saw with management was an ultimately impotent attempt to maintain some sort of order.

That is the danger I warn of. We are conspiracists. Our very nature is to distrust the official reports. We question where the mundanes accept blindly. That gives us a deeper insight into reality, IMO, but it also serves to keep us separated and suspicious of each other.

It was the virtual equivalent of the rioting mobs we see today. People become angry and at some point they rebel. There are two responses to such a rebellion: North Korea, for instance, would simply execute people until the rebellion was squashed. Seattle surrendered without a fight and allowed an area of their city to descend into chaos. Neither works. There is a lline of balance between those two extremes, and that line is terribly difficult to find. Each person will have their own personal preference to where that line is drawn, and they will not all be the same. That, then, in turn fuels the concern over fairness and equity, leading to more unrest.

In the end, more traditional forces can be used to destroy the target. The resistance is no longer there because the defenses are not unified.

AIDS/HIV almost never kills the host. But AIDS/HIV destroys the hosts ability to defend itself. Once that is done, a slight cold can kill. Don't worry about the cold, though... worry about the AIDS/HIV. It may not kill, but it makes it easy for anything else to do so.

TheRedneck