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THE CRAZY PILLS (mander.xyz)
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[–] 40 points 11 months ago (7 children)

When they say "Trump derangement syndrome" it always makes me think of the deranged shit that Trump does. Like trying to start wars with Iran and Venezuela and then practically demanding the Nobel peace prize.

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  • [+] -19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

    It's a legit thing though. I live in Boston. There are people here you meet occasionally who literally... talk about nothing about how awful Trump is and are totally obsessed with him to the point of alienating everyone around them. Who agonize over every tweet he makes everyday as if it is the end of the world.

    It's sort of like how Howard Stern used to get better ratings from people who hated him more than those that loved him. Some folks entire identity is now hating Trump. And half of what they hate is just bullshit, lies and imagination running wild and has little to do with reality.

    Too many folks are totally detached from reality really. Living in social media bubbles convincing themselves of their persecution from imaginary enemies. A constant stream of nonsense that is breaking their brains and they bring it IRL and refuse to social with you if you don't reinforce their preexisting beliefs.

    There is a growing contingent of folks who think the world should conform to the reality in their head. Not that they should confirm to the reality outside of it. It's scary AF. And these folks often think violence is totally justified to make other people conform to the nonsense in their heads.

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  • [+] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Our species broadly is far more concerned with narratives and stories than reality. This is how our brains work on a very fundamental level.

    Yep. Thanks for mentioning this. It's really the root of it. The existing social structure is reinforcing/escalating our worst psychological biases. The opposite of what many of us think it should be doing. At least for me... going to school was all about deprogramming all the emotional bias bullshit that my parents and home-town idiots I grew up with believed. The internet also helped a lot with that. It was about getting outside of the bubble.

    But it seem around 10 years ago this all shifted. and now education and internet is all about reinforcing those biases. I meet so many 'well-educated' people that have such provincial/delusional beliefs about the world now... it's terrifying. And this is folks on my 'own side' of leftism/liberalism... I can only imagine it's equal/worse among the right. A huge uptick in delusional and magical thinking, and people using their education to justify their crazy thoughts... instead of using their education to dismantle/prevent their crazy thoughts.

    I'm not so sure good policy is the way to do it... but I do know from political experience that good policy is something EVERYONE hates. Precisely because it doesn't benefit them exclusively.

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  • [+] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    History shows us people only learn to do the right thing after things have gone horrible horrible wrong.

    we had a worldwide depression and war that uttered in 80 years of peace. we will have another one before things can truly improve. the current generations are all far too removed from the consequences of their actions.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The founders tried that and look where it got us.

    I remind myself all the time that as mad as I may feel, as righteous and justified and endangered, that violence on the level that might change things will fuck up my life and the life of everyone I care about and a whole lot of people I don't know but don't deserve it. Are the Cubans better off after the cuban revolution? Maybe, hard to say. Were the Soviets better off after the Russian revolution? Again, hard to say. The French are better off today than they were before the French revolution, but they also got Napoleon right after that.

    Things will get worse before they get better.

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