In terms of politics, which is mostly what I discuss on here, I once read a Cowbee post that actually made something click for me that I hadn't understood, basically, that a socialist system should seek to nationalize industries primarily once they've become sufficiently developed that incentives for growth are no longer necessary or useful. Previously, my framework had been more along the lines of state-run for necessitities and private for luxuries, without consideration of the level of development, but Cowbee's explanation clicked for me and connected the concept of enshittification to the question which transformed the way I looked at things.

Um. Other than that, for all the discussions I've been in, not a lot else comes to mind. I find it really difficult to have high level discussions with people I don't already broadly agree with, because people just aren't interested. Whenever I attempt to pose a real question, or pick people's brains in a meaningful way, it just gets ignored. People just really like screaming at each other over the same like three topics forever, everything gets reduced to team sports, and those categorized as being on the other team get completely dismissed. Like honestly, that weird cult of "Soulism" that we have on here is at least more thought provoking and mentally stimulating that the 10,000th shouting match of "tankie!" "lib!" "tankie!" "lib!" "Genocide denier!" "Genocide enabler!" blah blah blah, it all gets so boring.

Sometimes I really miss being in school and writing essays, where I could know that someone was going to read it, think about it, and provide feedback. Trying to talk about anything high-level on here is shouting into the void. But everywhere else I know of on the internet is even worse! The only spaces where people actually engage with the sort of questions I'm interested in are spaces where everyone broadly agrees with my perspective already, which also gets boring.

Sometimes, I just need something interesting and challenging to mull over while working an understimulating job, and it's hard to find that.