Very true. And we have to remember that our own views are informed by years of study/observation in areas other people will not have paid any attention to. So often it would take a book worth of real life examples to give someone the same background experience, and they would have to read that book carefully over many months for those examples to sink in, and still then they might think those are cherry-picked examples, whereas you came across them organically.
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StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There are some people who have just been filled with so much wrong information over the course of their life that it’s impossible to reach them. Anything you say to them will have a keyword that puts their guard up, any fact you share would be fake news. It’s like their brains have been encrypted with the propaganda and hate. It’s pavlovian. I try to recognize it in myself and maintain an open mind but it’s hard.
StopTech@lemmy.today 5 days ago
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It hurts, man. Especially knowing that the road I took has crumbled behind me, like in those old Looney Tunes cartoons where someone redraws the road lines to lead people off a cliff.
StopTech@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I know what you mean. But it doesn’t have to be that way if enough people walk away and decide to do something positive instead.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Now imagine that they’re your parents.
It’s fucking awful.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I don’t have to
StopTech@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Now imagine it’s your children too.