Really really enjoying your shares Fred, though unable to join in, share, question your opinions and truths the last moon, was great sensing another side of you, oh and am sure Billy boy still loves ya lol.
Really really enjoying your shares Fred, though unable to join in, share, question your opinions and truths the last moon, was great sensing another side of you, oh and am sure Billy boy still loves ya lol.
Aragorn (22nd February 2022), Chris (22nd February 2022), Dreamtimer (24th February 2022), Emil El Zapato (22nd February 2022), Fred Steeves (22nd February 2022), Gio (27th February 2022), Wind (22nd February 2022)
Hey Fred,
It's been a minute indeed.
Well for one thing, If I don't come to places like these I personally feel that the need to express an opinion on worldly and otherworldly events is almost entirely gone.
I saw many people during the Covid Farce only express their opinions "heels in the dirt" so to speak when confronted with the question how they felt about it. Many just got on with minding their business and silently decide for themselves whether to comply with vaccination or not.
Only when cornered into express their opinion, because the world painted a very opinionated picture on both sides, did many express theirs as "fact of the matter" instead of a more nuanced exploration of ideas which would happen if you just talked it over with some mates over a meal. Now we could discuss what cornered mean, but for this conversation I would say a 24/7 onslaught of main stream media "facts" followed by the same amount of non-main stream media backlash feel cornering for many who don't usually go and search for depth.
Does that elaborate enough?
With Love,
Have a great day today
Aragorn (22nd February 2022), Chris (22nd February 2022), Dreamtimer (24th February 2022), Emil El Zapato (22nd February 2022), Fred Steeves (22nd February 2022), Gio (27th February 2022), PurpleLama (24th February 2022), Wind (22nd February 2022)
That's very interesting, so it's a human thing, not an American thing. I wonder what strategist could possibly think a good political move would be to stop being a party of the people, but continue on trying to put on this dog and pony show that it still is, as if people aren't going to catch on eventually. In our last election, the democrats essentially stopped even trying to make a show of it any more, and quite deliberately and overtly pivoted to going after upper middle class professionals in the big city areas.
Sleepy Joe did give it just a bit of lip service, for a while, but by now it's quite clear they no longer as a whole give a shit about the working class, and that leaves the door wide open for the next big fake populist coming down the road from the hard right to be the working man's hero again. You almost couldn't script it out any better if this were really the intention.
It does thank you.
Seriously man, I see very little evidence of much nuance going on any more, anywhere. Some time ago I just stopped sharing my opinions of things out in the real world, because everywhere I look, people's minds are already pretty much made up about everything. If one makes up your mind about one thing, then they've essentially made it up about a whole host of other issues to boot, because they've signed up to an ideology and are not actually thinking each individual issue through one by one. "This is what my group thinks about these issues, and I do too".
People are doing a lot of tying their identities to their beliefs, and discussing these matters easily leads to people having different beliefs, and when beliefs are tied to identities feelings start getting hurt and anger ensues so I just don't go there. But it's always there waiting, just below the surface, people's minds are made up about things and they're on the lookout for confirmation from others.
At least places like this are built for discussing these matters.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Aragorn (22nd February 2022), Chris (22nd February 2022), Dreamtimer (24th February 2022), Emil El Zapato (22nd February 2022), Gio (27th February 2022), PurpleLama (24th March 2022), Wind (22nd February 2022)