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UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 5 days agoActially … you are correct and Im wrong.
I am a man who believes that 'If something is substantial amongst the people? Then a MASSIVE response from the people will be substantiated"
If most people actually cared about the anti-human environment we have made …why have nost people not put in the work to change this? If most people actually cared about the effects that global warming will have on the planet , ESPECIALLY the Global South and the equitoreal countries… why have most peoole not put in the work to show that they care?
You have said it. The truth is that most people are not decent and that they dont care about either of these issues cause they just keep on and keep on mindlessly making more babies to be miserable with them and going to work in their gas guzzling cars and heck some people definitely dont even need a car to do the things in life that they do and yet… they still own them and use them far too frequently.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Don’t forget the second part of what I said:
Never underestimate propaganda and peer pressure. If everyone around you acts like it is not a big thing, you won’t either.
My pet theory is that almost all stable societies need some kind of enforced normal-ness. Whether it’s being catholic and paying taxes to the king, being a cheeseburger-eating, bud light drinking, tuck-driving redneck or even being a tree-hugging wannabe-leftist academic with a bike and a mullet. Monkeys like being around people telling them they are normal. Society organises to provide a sense of “normal”. It is extremely hard to break through this, and it essentially only works if a large party of the people form a new normal.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Personally I fee l that ‘normalness’ , no matter what form it takes, shouldnt include the bombing of Yemeni, Iranians and Lebanese civilians and the deliberate depressing of wages of poor people, Or the destruction of the livelihoods of poor Equitoreal communities through climate change
Most people still see it as ‘normal’ to join the american and israeli militaries and still see iit as noormal to bomb out Yemeni, Lebanese and Iranian civilians (which is STILL happening as I type this and there has never been a substantiated uproar tto stop this)
Most people still see it as ‘normal’ that most people from the Global South get paid as if they were slaves and remain in poverty or near poverty no matter what they do oor how hard they work.
Most people still seee it as ‘normal’ just go out and about in this anti-green energy world that we have created here even though the IPCC has proven thatt climate change wil irreperably. destory every community nearr the equator and in the Global South for the next 200 years!
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Please note: I chose the word “normal” for lack of a better word, and in its most technical sense only. I do not want to imply any moral judgement.
But in that sense of the word, yes, shrugging when the news show pictures of dead innocents is “normal”. Just like not too long ago it was normal to not treat black people like human beings, or a bit before that, to burn people who disagree with your religious dogma at the stake. In another part of the world, it was normal to sacrifice a poor sod every now and then to make sure the harvests are successful. And don’t get me started on the history of wars. All of this is “normal” as in, it was perceived to be just how things are by the majority.
Actually, I believe that only by understanding that normal and morally right do not necessarily have anything in common, one can understand how bad the “normal” is, and demand change. “Can’t you see this is bad and we need to do something” does not work because no, it is normal to do nothing. Creating a new normal is pretty damn hard, creating a morally better one is even harder.