It seems bad, in the initial ineptitude of atrophied epistemological ability, and the clashes of world views of those who’d succumbed to naive realism.
Maybe we could have done with at least Walter Cronkite going on a rant about atrazine and other hormone disruptors, and the insane greedy sociopathy of the economic system that would incentivise deploying such, and not allow them not to deploy it, because that would be in breach of the bought statutory regulations “to protect the shareholders” that do not allow a corporation to not take any action that would maximise profits for shareholders. … Sure [/s]. That rule was put there to protect the shareholders. Why then is it having the effect of not just letting rotters get away with poisoning us for profit, but mandating that they have to!?
As was introduced to me, breaches of Duty of Care Law fall under 3 categories. Incompetence (not criminal, but you should lose your job), negligence (can be criminal), and intent (always criminal). So you can see why politicians try so hard to appear incompetent. Lets them get away with murder.
I’ve heard rotters genuinely espouse, like it’s a good idea, “because homosexuals have more expendable income”. :O
Or maybe it’d be better if we all learned to stop depending on some guy to tell us what’s going on (or to use as an icon of wrongthink), whether it’s Alex Jones, or Walter Cronkite, or whoever else, and we go look into things for ourselves, and stop atrophying our ability to be curious and look into things ourselves, and to do our own thinking.
It seems bad, in the initial ineptitude of atrophied epistemological ability, and the clashes of world views of those who’d succumbed to naive realism…, and it is, but it’s not so dire a prognosis ongoing. For a start, more and more of us are seeing more of the problem space, looking upstream to where it flows from, not just reacting, not just clamouring for a solution that they know not was already primed, nor sticking their heads back in the sand and parroting the party line, mocking any outside the groupthink’s in-group, to terrorise everybody straight, into the totalitarianised psyche that terrorises and totalitarianises everybody else all around, driving deeper into worsening atrocities seen ever more as necessary virtues. … Every utterance of better sense, dispels the madness, no matter how poorly taken in the moment[1], sows seeds of destroying the totalitarianism, or at the very least preventing it from growing malignant.
[1: oh how many times uttering nuance has one cast as part of the polar opposame groupthink. lol. “he said atrazine! he’s one of them! get him!” lol. ever worth checking if some totalitarian tartar got on my tunic. lol. none are perfectly immune. those who think they are, are the most deluded under the hypnotic psychotic spell. “Listen to those who seek the truth. Run from those who claim to have found it.” … or go up to them and either explain what they’re missing, or better yet, socratically query the truth they claim to have found, and let them find their own ignorance by it. I’ve still to get any worthy skill at that.]
open dyslexia font?
nice touch.