For a while, I thought getting a proper education would solve the problems we have. Now, I don’t think that’s an answer because we have Ivy League people going on insane rants. I do think people have not expanded their mind because they’re too comfortable with their echo chamber. People are either worried about their image or likeness. Not sure it’s their parents, their social networks, or the expanding outlets out there.
@tracytran: People are only people, and alas, the right-wing does and always has had something of a point in saying that there is some level indoctrination/influence that goes on in education, especially higher education. That said, the shit goes on everywhere. Because it happens wherever there are people grouped up and doing stuff together.
What's fucked things up a lot, IMO, is the desperate "postmodern" need to read everything into everything else and to mind everyone else's business...
@tracytran: ...as if it's an obligation and a right. Plus the obsession with not only performing but projecting that image. It's dark carnival funhouse version of "Fake it 'til you make it".
Humans are a weird algebra. Their behavior is predictable AF, but their inner workings are truly chaotic and bizarre AF.
@thedisasterautist I think that’s the part that baffles me. Why role play it to make a point? As adults, people have a good sense what’s going on. Their behavior resembles pathological liars. Were they hoping to convert someone? Play the hero? I think you’re right their getting their news, but want to fit in a narrative in their own mind.
"As adults, people have a good sense what’s going on."
only if they're actually thinking, not feeling like they're thinking
That's the trick with emotions and neurochemicals. If we're not careful, we, especially adults, will wind up more passengers than drivers or even navigators of our own lives.
Many people are pathological liars, first to themselves and then, as a matter of course, to everyone else. When confronted with the cognitive dissonances handed out by life, what...
@tracytran: ...do most folks do?
They double-down. They insist on their reality/narrative? Why?
It's a matter of identity, and so once again we find the problem isn't external at all. It's inside the grey matter.