Well that’s basically the premise of populism. Your policy is doing whatever most of your audience would first think of doing (with no subtlety at all so as not to seem to smart or distant to them) then you just ignore the consequences when they come to bite you in the ass and most people won’t think all those bad things are a result of your own stupid policy, because they believe it was perfectly logical and flawless to begin with.
Unified Theory of American Reality
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halvar@lemy.lol 1 hour ago
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Twelve year olds are more advanced, make it 8.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours ago
Sounds like something a president on a list would say.
SlacksMcTavish@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
He does keep drawing the line at 12…
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
This is very accurate. In my twenties, I worked on myself relentlessly to try to become “grown up”. Eventually I looked around and realized that hardly anyone else was doing that, and people twice my age were still acting like children. Then they elected a man-boy King in their image.
yakko@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
I too passed the self-imposed ritual. It has not made me happy, but it helped me understand why I wasn’t.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
damn. well said
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Now that I think about it, the situation in the US really does play out like an unconscionable large version of Lord of the Flies.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
This is pretty spot on.
Ralph was just trying to help organize and make everyone’s lives better. He was ignored and his life was threatened.
Simon, the insightful one, was trying to get people to see reason to quell their mania. He was murdered.
Piggy, the intelligent and compassionate one, was murdered.
erin@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Intelligent, compassionate, and a vessel for the author’s racist worldview.
Don’t mind me. I hate that book, and I hate that it’s taught in every school as if it has anything important to say. We’ve run the Lord of the Flies experiment, both accidentally and very intentionally. Every time, we’ve demonstrated that humans are better than that, and the author’s beliefs about human nature were both very incorrect and very racist.
I still resent being forced to debate my classmates about whether human nature was intrinsically “good” or “evil,” directly after reading that book, even though it was 25 years ago. I was the lone voice on the side of “good,” for lack of a “good and evil are subjective terms, but nonetheless humans are empathetic and this book is horseshit” team. I got dogpiled by 20 some other students for about 45 minutes. Fuck you Ms. Brown, and fuck you William Golding. That book has nothing important to say other than exposing its author’s racist insecurities.
someguy3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
True. When I was young I thought why don’t we use the military domestically. Yeah it doesn’t work.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 hours ago
It actually works really well, if your goal is fascism.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Makes too much sense. Is this guy CIA?
ShittDickk@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Since 2012 twelve year olds controlled the memes, also when an explosion of boomers joined social media. We’ve been letting the kids parents the adults for 13 years now.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
the worst kind of 12yo is the one who want to change the world for the better but they’re fucking stupid so their well intensions end up serving the bad guys and screwing everybody else. the story of ukrainian NGOs - literally did the dirty job for oligarch and stayed in denial until the stink became biohazard.
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
This lines up with what I’ve been shouting into the void whenever I read a news article. “Where are the fucking adults?!”
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
You just made me remember that book that came out in his first term reassuring everyone that there were “adults in the room” protecting us from certain doom.
What a crock of shit that turned out to be.
Tower@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Eh, I think that his 2nd term kind of helps validate that view of his 1st. Because he was a political newbie, he allowed those around him to help make staffing decisions, so you got mostly run of the mill Republicans. Terrible, certainly, but not sycophants. That’s all out the window this time. Key positions are filled based solely on either fealty to the mad king or ✨campaign contributions✨ (bribes). Anyone who dares speak out gets the axe, and at least for now it’s a metaphorical one.
tetris11@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
when you reach the milestone of adulthood and take a peek behind the veil of responsibility…
… maybe Larry Niven was right in Ringworld, humanity’s only defining trait is not our intelligence, but our luck.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Twelve year-old attitude, 2 year-old selfishness.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s a nation filled to the brim with children trapped in adult bodies.
This is not an opinion because I’m perpetually online. I go outside and they’re there too. Literally everywhere.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 minutes ago
I was a shut-in before the 2024 Election. I figured social spaces there were somewhat immature because the mature people would have jobs and real life involvement. Then I started going outside, and I lost all hope. I’m too stupid for people to be this dumb. (Though I’ll admit, social media, algorithmic content, and the AI products probably made people dumber.)
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 hours ago
It’s actually worse outside, which is why I am terminally online.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 hours ago
Already a term for it… maybe they weren’t aware of it on account of being twelve.
theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-wester…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantilization
Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety while being a short step away from bemoaning degenerated modernity to me.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety
Sorry, socially engineered infantilization is just an explanation, not a justification.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
We already have a word for that phenomena, it’s called fascism
axx@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
I don’t think I’ve ever read a description or definition of fascism where the population being immature is a thing.
What do you mean?
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 14 minutes ago
The elements of fascism could be construed as a childish/immature perception of reality, where the performance/aesthetics of maturity (particularly as perceived by chauvinistic men) is paramount. The examples listed in this post speak to uniformed (i.e childish) views on power, masculinity, and justice. These topics, among others, are sticking points of every flavor of fascism.
I’m not necessarily saying that this means the american population is immature, but our current fascist regime utilizes these tropes (among other elements of american culture) in their rhetoric, propaganda, and policy decisions to influence the population in pursuit of fascist ends.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
The average American is as literate as a 5th to 6th grader.
thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-litera…
5th to 6th graders are 10 to 12 years old, normally.
So uh… yep, mhm, the average American is about as stupid as a 12 year old, that’s a bit on the optimistic side though.
Dude’s theory isn’t really wrong, Americans are dumb and immature as fuck, and yes the statistics exist to back that up.