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It feels so weird to pass by incredible filth on a daily basis, but then get taken aback by a worldview. You must have been through a lot, wish I could help somehow.
Everyone I'm close to knows about the prison industrial complex because we talk to each other. That's how a few of us found out, by knowing people who are activated enough to look into these things and spread the word. As to the rest, I could hit you with a list of things and say "approach the world with intent to confirm this bias" and it would amount to the same thing.
Not being part of the problem takes work, it's true, but wisdom is in knowing people are highly situational, neither inherently good or bad but often entirely unequipped for the world we've created or the heights we've grasped. We're beings of brilliance and kindness but also complacency and disaster. Not evil, but we create many evil situations by accident and shortsightedness.
We live in different countries. I left the US because it was driving me crazy, and my heart goes out to you since I know a lot of people feel that way but don't have a viable exit strategy. I've put in a lot of work to stop participating in an empire of slavery and stolen land, moved back to the land of my grandparents (which has its own terrible history, perfect being the enemy of good as we all know).
I'm against all the buckets. The only bucket we're all in is a gravity well, and we need to act like it if we're not going to hate it every minute.
You've read a fair bit of self-help books or similar haven't you?
Maybe we live in different neighborhoods. Most of my neighbors are fine with locking "those people" up, and don't much care what happens to them beyond that.
How do you account for the vast majority of eligible voters either not showing up or voting for Trump? That's about as unbiased a measure as I can think of.
So we're on the same page there.
If it takes work to not be part of the problem than aren't people inherently "bad" until they do the work? I didn't introduce that dialectic to this conversation. Of course throwing everyone into two buckets is inherently going to miss a lot of depth.
I'm not sure it was ever any different.
Can you be more specific? What is this referring to?
I tend to cruise /all
It seems as though you somehow made it less specific lol
https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=New
An insane mess
If you find it so repulsive, why do you browse all?
Also, why use lemmy.world?
We talked about this over the weekend, you're going to need new material. I browse all because I like weird shit.
Is this a fun conversation to have? I'm happy to talk about anything else if you are.
I generally don't pay attention to usernames, so don't take this personally when I say I literally have no fucking idea who you are.
My b, similar sounding username and it was just 2 days ago. I have been looking at other servers for about a year now, just lazy and slow.
Go outside and start counting all the absolutely unnecessary gas guzzling SUVs. Walk your neighborhood with a trash bag and see what you collect. Ask yourself how many people you know are aware of the prison industrial complex, or would even care if they did know. How many people want subsidized housing in their neighborhoods to address homelessness? How many want some of the funding for their school districts to go to school districts in less fortunate neighborhoods? If there is a local home in obvious disrepair, how many people will gossip or complain to the municipality compared to how many will ask the neighbor if they need help?
Most people are nice. That's not the same as not being evil. Not being evil takes work.
Holy shit dude how do you dupli-post 10 times
Weitd. I'm traveling so it was probably network issues.