Since Trump’s election, gun groups catering to progressives and people of color report a surge in interest as they look to defend themselves in a country that, to them, feels increasingly unstable.
Since Trump’s election, gun groups catering to progressives and people of color report a surge in interest as they look to defend themselves in a country that, to them, feels increasingly unstable.
Blocked
How ever will I recover from this blow
I don’t think someone could have proved your point about performative behavioirs faster than that. They even felt the need to announce their block so no one would miss out on their preformance lmfao.
I genuinely feel bad for our species broadly, we desperately all want social acceptance, we want a valid identity that others recognize and respect, and these needs will just perpetually conflict with each other, leaving everyone alone and miserable and even more desperate for validation and recognition from others.
We are hard-wired like lovebirds and guinea pigs to be deeply social creatures, without social connection we lose our minds and even lose the will to live. But we also have brains that hold onto narratives and stories that aren’t even real or true which keep us from being able to share anything with anyone.
Anyway, yeah that’s how I see a lot of Lemmy and social media broadly. Lost, lonely souls trying so hard to be seen and heard.
Feel like it should be required in High School to learn enough psychology to understand how your brain works. No one is gonna be immune to the peculiarities of the human brain, like the proclivity to narratives you mentioned, or how flalliable memory can be, but being aware those things exist helps so much. You can at lest start to identify patterns.
I have been saying this like a crazy person to anyone who will listen. There are so, so many misconceptions about how our very system of awareness works, and if we put less trust in the things we think and feel, we would all do a lot better in our lives, we would listen more, we would rethink things, we would examine ourselves and actually consider how and why we make decisions.
But half the time when I try to tell this to someone they feel automatically attacked and challenged. “Why does it always have to be MY fault? Don’t you think other people might be the assholes who aren’t thinking right?”