• confluence@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    This. People have been given an alternate reality to live in, so complex and all-encompassing that—unless they’ve grown up to have an appreciation for critical thinking—all the thinking’s been done for them.

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      8 hours ago

      Hard to make people care for more than the immediate here and now, Trump’s WWE wrestling persona does that