Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?
Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Find a hobby that will get you out of the house and around people. Isolation is how they limit your thinking. Other people expose you to new ideas, experiences, and perspectives.
Now that you’re “woke” you need to come to terms with the fact that people wake up at their own pace. Just because you’ve seen the light doesn’t mean you can pull the wool from other’s eyes.
You need to curate a list of reliable sources. For me, I don’t really take any sensationalist science or astronomy news seriously until I hear established voices I’m familiar with talking about them. With politics its a little less straight forward, but the same principle applies.
Educate yourself. Learn about the mechanisms that these cycles operate on top of. Learn methods of critical thinking. Learn the scientific method, learn the basics of money over time, learn how stocks/mortgages/bonds/real-estate functions.
If you know nothing about how the world actually works than you’ll never be able to discern a liar from a valid source.
I might add, start good trouble. This follows from 5. above.
Hold your state and federal representatives’ feet to the fire. Protest injustice. Demand transparency and equity. Understand how your local community works. If it doesn’t work, build on that.
Definitely this. Right now americans are confused as to why their fat cat democrats have been unable to prevent a clearly incompetent gaggle of morons from burning the house down. Americans stopped holding democrats accountable and gave them too many free lunches. Now they have no teeth and the only solution is to primary the vast majority of them asap.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 2 days ago
Understand psychology and marketing, as well as crime and geopolitics.
…crime like Mafias and Cartels and even street gangs.