No reason to apologize - that was a great, thoughtful writeup, you make some great points, and I enjoyed reading it a lot! I’ll probably need to re-read it a bit more slowly to make sure I fully absorb it, but it was a great read nonetheless!
I’m looking at the US from the outside, luckily, but I see it to a lesser extent in other countries too - the rise of painfully stupid, violent rhetoric, the rampant anti-intellectualism, people being proud of their ignorance… And I just don’t want to see (much less experience) the massive amount of suffering it will inevitably bring. Perhaps I am overdramatic with the “point of no return for humanity,” but the self-correction you mention will indeed be a rough one, and intakes me really sad. There’s very little I can do about it though, so I guess I just need to help people close by that I can help, and accept that things will have to get much worse before they gett better :/
No reason to apologize - that was a great, thoughtful writeup, you make some great points, and I enjoyed reading it a lot! I’ll probably need to re-read it a bit more slowly to make sure I fully absorb it, but it was a great read nonetheless!
I’m looking at the US from the outside, luckily, but I see it to a lesser extent in other countries too - the rise of painfully stupid, violent rhetoric, the rampant anti-intellectualism, people being proud of their ignorance… And I just don’t want to see (much less experience) the massive amount of suffering it will inevitably bring. Perhaps I am overdramatic with the “point of no return for humanity,” but the self-correction you mention will indeed be a rough one, and intakes me really sad. There’s very little I can do about it though, so I guess I just need to help people close by that I can help, and accept that things will have to get much worse before they gett better :/
Yeah. We’ve been through some bad things, but this is going to be very bad. We are not set up to do well at facing the challenge.