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Scenario.
You've been told your whole life that the sky is the limit. Your feelings are constantly spared, receiving no real criticism or discipline.
You don't understand the impact that human progress has made over the past century...
You've been told your whole life that the sky is the limit. Your feelings are constantly spared, receiving no real criticism or discipline.
You don't understand the impact that human progress has made over the past century...
... nor the gravity of having the entirety of human knowledge sitting in your pocket, right along side your snap tweets, and face grams, and instabooks.
You are numb to the miracle that is indoor plumbing and electricity.
You are numb to the miracle that is indoor plumbing and electricity.
In stores there are products that are always reliable. They're always in stock, always the same price, and always consistent.
You've been led to believe that college is the only path to progress and success and that it makes you the intellectual better of tradesmen.
You've been led to believe that college is the only path to progress and success and that it makes you the intellectual better of tradesmen.
You live in a city. It's population dense, dirty, and expensive. You've been told that the pollution, poverty, and depravity you've seen in the city is the same across the country and that these aren't uniquely metropolitan issues.
Rather than being taught that you are inherently valued, you learn instead that you are entitled to certain guarantees in life. The absence of those creature comforts is now oppression. Those that have built businesses and experience success are now your oppressors.
Personal responsibility and work are dirty words. You are owed government protections rather than making your own way and building your character. The wages you receive are a pittance and your position amounts to slavery.
You're young and have fire in your veins. You're told that they've identified the cancerous cause of human suffering: someone else.
This other entity is now the reason why you "have not". They are evil for withholding prosperity from you.
This other entity is now the reason why you "have not". They are evil for withholding prosperity from you.
They should be ensuring your quality of life, because you deserve it and they have "too much".
Now your anger reaches a head. Why won't they give what's owed?
Where are your guaranteed outcomes? Why are you dealing with the consequences of your own actions?
Now your anger reaches a head. Why won't they give what's owed?
Where are your guaranteed outcomes? Why are you dealing with the consequences of your own actions?
But despite knowing the way "things ought to be", you remember that you are a victim, and you can't do much to receive what is "yours".
So you crawl over glass to elect civil servants who will give you the quality of life you deserve for merely existing...
So you crawl over glass to elect civil servants who will give you the quality of life you deserve for merely existing...
Now what?
You notice others around you that do not understand the way of the world and want to prevent or strip the benefits you deserve. These people are monsters, villains, scum. Don't they care?
Why are they hording wealth when you have bills to pay?
You notice others around you that do not understand the way of the world and want to prevent or strip the benefits you deserve. These people are monsters, villains, scum. Don't they care?
Why are they hording wealth when you have bills to pay?
So you need to fight and destroy them. However you do that doesn't matter, because according to the powers you've entrusted your care to, these are criminals and they need reformed. Once they're removed everyone will be at peace...
Cared for, relieved of all responsibility because of government funded programs. These paid for by the greedy capitalists who have too large of a share of the pie.
Given this, where's your headspace? How's your mental health? What's your worldview?
Given this, where's your headspace? How's your mental health? What's your worldview?
