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Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months agoUnfortunately, young people pushing boundaries and very angry people needing to vent justifiable rage will not go away any time soon.
In bad cases, they sometimes don’t touch grass because they want all the grass to die. You can’t reach that person very easily, there’s a whole mountain range of anger in the way. The Earth just has all sorts on it, and this is one of them. It’s best to understand what it’s all about.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Oh, of course, it’s always related to material conditions, regardless of personal motivations. People will always do their best with what they know and have immediate access to, angry people online have my sympathies. I realise that some people just need to vent when I get a shitty comment, so I never take it super personally anymore. No matter what field you are in, if you create conditions for something living to flourish, it will pay back your investment tenfold, which makes the current modus operandi of short-term capital gain at all cost ever more tragic.
Food for thought:
Nothing will get better until we decide we want something different, collectively, en masse.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And social conditions too, but yeah, ultimately.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
That Harvard link covers that quite a bit!
Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My main gripe with essays like this is the lack of sound ideas on how to realistically move forward. “If everyone would…” just isn’t good enough, and won’t be without a cataclysmic upheaval or extraordinary luck.
The spread of ideas like these is very easy to manage. You provide an easier to understand scapegoat and lean on people’s laziness and mild preferences. Jewish people, for instance, have been extremely convenient for this, much to their detriment.
You can’t educate people that hate education and complex thinking, either. How could we resolve this?