I swear, people are always finding new ways to separate people into groups so they can be judged and get mad at eachother over basically nothing. Even people they’ve never met! It’s partly why I hate going out these days, everyone seems like they are in a bad mood (kinda understandable given this current political climate tho) and feels like they want to find ways to fuck with you. Maybe it’s just me being anxious, but I don’t think the general mindeset of USA people is very good right now. Am I the one going crazy? /rant
You’re not crazy. I don’t know how it is elsewhere, but it seems like here everyone is has a bunch of opinions about other groups of people. People who genuinely try to not be prejudice and/or hateful seem quite few and far between. There’s a few of us, though.
Propaganda is a helluva drug, and humanity has never been so exposed to it as we are now, nor has it ever been easier to manufacture propaganda as it is now.
I think most people are actually decent folk who want to help the people in their lives and do genuinely care for their happiness, but the propaganda we consume at nearly every waking moment these days is good at convincing people to forget the humanity of anyone they don’t personally know.
It’s a matter of prejudice, certainly, but I think more than that it’s a matter of perspective, if that makes sense.
I honestly hope that’s the truth. It seems easier to fix than genuine bigotry. It scares me that I don’t know how much propaganda i’m consuming; I don’t know what’s what.
I’m not joking when I say consuming every propaganda helped. It allows you to measure each set of voices by their accuracy. You can figure out if people online are correct or wrong about something by taking measurements in your own environment and comparing that to the observations. This does create an issue where you might only trust things in your observable reality, and I would say there are trustworthy places for boring information like the history of groups of people and how light or sound work. Wikipedia put us a long way towards understanding eachother.
Anyways, kinda rambling but my point is, reality is easier to trace than people think. Your opinion isn’t usually too far from reality. The rest is usually misinformation that can be corrected through curiosity.
