Yeah there's a few things wrong in those last two paragraphs (amongst which we should be careful how we use mental health adjectives, and also imperialist language) but I didn't want to elaborate too much: because don't want come across piling on unhelpfully, tone is sometimes hard to read and maybe I am giving leeway because it is lemmygrad

With my original comment I was trying to focus on the doomerism aspect of the OP's post.

(When you say "you" I'm guessing you meant the equivalent of "one" because I didn't say those things 😀 )

I despise western chauvanism, and I see it everywhere now. I'm in the hard sciences right now, and you'd be suprised how woefully entrenched educated liberals still are, even after seeing multiple simultaneous genocides facitiltated by their oh-so progressive liberal parties. It is impossible to confront them and not see the disgust in their eyes.

The Thailand thing has been happening at all 800+ US military bases since the fifties. It's kind of crazy people don't know about this stuff.

Consider better words than "schizophrenic" and "islamist"; gain an understanding of a more accurate historical/scientific view of where they comes from to better realise their fuller definitons (ie we move beyond left-liberal notions of offense and thereby further develop a more sincere scientific worldview of emancipation)

[None of us were born marxist-leninist, and we are all still learning]

queer acceptance scales almost exclusively with HDI

I'm deeply interested about this - do you have any recommended reading?

Thanks, they were both recommendations by other lemmygraders - the last one by yogthos (I forgot who recommended the first book).

Journaling can help though I would consider it separate to the broader aim suggested here; the focus of deeper thinking going beyond revising or consolidating knowledge. It's the "discovery" - including what have you worked out beyond what you have read or seen such as maybe a more accurate or underlying principle or relationship - that is key here.