COVID broke people’s brains too. don’t know about your timeline but in my opinion while some people started showing their true colors, some people actually changed during that time.
People got stuck at home and were in need of answers and extremists are very good at finding very simple answers to very complex issues, so people got hooked to that
That’s why Critical Thinking Skills are so important, and why Conservatives want to suppress the teaching of it in schools. Critical Thinkers instantly understand that the simplest answer probably isn’t the best one.
Also introspection, self-analysis and self-criticism, IMHO, which as far as I know aren’t formally taught anywhere outside Psychology degrees.
I know a lot of degree educated people who none the less act like complete total wankers because they can’t even spot that them acting thus is driven by petty and unhealthy psychological wants or fears from past experiences which aren’t at all applicable anymore.
Well educated mature adults is what we need, in my opinion, and quite a lot if not most of those who are well educated and agewise adult aren’t really mature and that’s not at all helped by a Society which would rather people remain psychological teens because they’re easier to manipulate with Marketing and Propaganda that targets people’s emotions.
It doesnt erase the shitbag hypothesis; it only softens it. They know that the answers they chose to accept are shit bag answers. They know it’s all going to cause harm.
Like in plenty other behaviours which are fairly or unfairy socially expected but are not in fact natural for everybody, it makes sense that most shitbags socializing with friends will act in ways that are “what friends are supposed to do” because they know that’s what’s expect of them by others, rather than doing what they actually want to do.
Personally I think what we’re seeing is probably the “weakening of the power of social shame” or at least a shift in what is shameful, than a shift in people’s true selves.
and people were also at home invested in conspiracy theories too, on youtube, alot of channels started to have thier “own conspiracy segments” which turn viewers into trumpers over time.
COVID broke people’s brains too. don’t know about your timeline but in my opinion while some people started showing their true colors, some people actually changed during that time.
People got stuck at home and were in need of answers and extremists are very good at finding very simple answers to very complex issues, so people got hooked to that
This is why I hate tiktok- that site is actual brain rot on steroids. I thought Facebook was bad but we keep finding ways to make it worse
That’s why Critical Thinking Skills are so important, and why Conservatives want to suppress the teaching of it in schools. Critical Thinkers instantly understand that the simplest answer probably isn’t the best one.
Also introspection, self-analysis and self-criticism, IMHO, which as far as I know aren’t formally taught anywhere outside Psychology degrees.
I know a lot of degree educated people who none the less act like complete total wankers because they can’t even spot that them acting thus is driven by petty and unhealthy psychological wants or fears from past experiences which aren’t at all applicable anymore.
Well educated mature adults is what we need, in my opinion, and quite a lot if not most of those who are well educated and agewise adult aren’t really mature and that’s not at all helped by a Society which would rather people remain psychological teens because they’re easier to manipulate with Marketing and Propaganda that targets people’s emotions.
I like this answer. I prefer it to the “those particular friends were just always shit bags”
It doesnt erase the shitbag hypothesis; it only softens it. They know that the answers they chose to accept are shit bag answers. They know it’s all going to cause harm.
Yeah.
Like in plenty other behaviours which are fairly or unfairy socially expected but are not in fact natural for everybody, it makes sense that most shitbags socializing with friends will act in ways that are “what friends are supposed to do” because they know that’s what’s expect of them by others, rather than doing what they actually want to do.
Personally I think what we’re seeing is probably the “weakening of the power of social shame” or at least a shift in what is shameful, than a shift in people’s true selves.
and people were also at home invested in conspiracy theories too, on youtube, alot of channels started to have thier “own conspiracy segments” which turn viewers into trumpers over time.
That’s exactly what I said