California’s governor is being touted as a successor to the Biden throne. Though he’s often imagined as a beacon of progress, his feckless record shows otherwise.
Yes, you do have to make an effort to connect topics when communicating.
And sure, there is a problem with apathy, but that’s not THE problem. The last three presidential elections have seen the highest voter turnout in American history, it’s not a problem with people not caring as much as being too easily swayed to care about the wrong things, and this comes from a lack of education, lack of language skills, lack of cognitive ability broadly. When you say “People are too frustrated to care about nuance” yes, this IS stupidity. Stupidity isn’t some magic potion, it’s caused by things. In this case, it’s been designed by corporate interests using fascism to further this goal of a dumb, easily manipulated population.
I think ignoring emotions and just calling people stupid is simplistic and insulting.
Strong emotions are known to make people stupider. The more they fall behind the more frustrated they get and the less they care that the official economic metrics say things are fine.
They see children being shot in the streets of Gaza and they’re infuriated at their impotence to do anything to stop it.
Just calling them stupid is only going to make them more angry and irrational.
I consider this entire line of conversation and semantics “frustrating” and “infuriating” when there is so much at stake. It reminds me of every leftist failure we’ve endured for decades.
Yes, you do have to make an effort to connect topics when communicating.
And sure, there is a problem with apathy, but that’s not THE problem. The last three presidential elections have seen the highest voter turnout in American history, it’s not a problem with people not caring as much as being too easily swayed to care about the wrong things, and this comes from a lack of education, lack of language skills, lack of cognitive ability broadly. When you say “People are too frustrated to care about nuance” yes, this IS stupidity. Stupidity isn’t some magic potion, it’s caused by things. In this case, it’s been designed by corporate interests using fascism to further this goal of a dumb, easily manipulated population.
I think ignoring emotions and just calling people stupid is simplistic and insulting.
Strong emotions are known to make people stupider. The more they fall behind the more frustrated they get and the less they care that the official economic metrics say things are fine.
They see children being shot in the streets of Gaza and they’re infuriated at their impotence to do anything to stop it.
Just calling them stupid is only going to make them more angry and irrational.
I consider this entire line of conversation and semantics “frustrating” and “infuriating” when there is so much at stake. It reminds me of every leftist failure we’ve endured for decades.
There, I am trying to be better.
I feel the same way, but for the opposite reason.