@AidanJohnMoffat I’m an unknown artist and I’m just starting to get my stuff onto streaming platforms because for years I’ve been trying to get people to listen to my stuff because bandcamp isn’t where people go for new music. Streaming sites lend a legitimacy (for better or worse).
Difficult to watch those same people brush aside credible evidence that the president* is an abuser of women and children in his personal life. They’ve made excuses and whatabouts in the face of concentration camps. They’ve reveled in the cruelty and bullying of this 10/
If I believe I am “a capitalist” or “a communist” I’m saying “I know that organizing labor and value this certain way is the answer” and then I start looking at the question. And that can be extended to any identity, really, because of the way we are currently using 2/
/ and I think this explains the effect the president* and his state-media has had on people many of us have, until now, known to be moral and decent people. I grew up around many people I disagreed with politically and knew them to be good and decent people. It’s been really 9/
“Think for yourself” is too simple and broad. The block isn’t sufficient thinking, it’s identity-dependent thinking. We’ve created political ideologies around certain answers and wear those identities into our explorations. Which is not actually about asking questions. 1/
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
... but let’s be real, it’ll be Twitter.
Twitter makes way for the dumbest and worst people to speak loudly and confidently to the... https://t.co/CTLTO1lm1W
If anyone every says “I’m sorry, but...” in that “I’m about to tell you!” Tone, they’re not sorry. And it’s a toss-up as to whether what they’re about to say makes any sense.
Sometimes I worry I’m not smart enough to succeed. Then I remember there are adults who own houses who also believe dinosaurs are a hoax created by Satan to test us, and I think that maybe being smart doesn’t matter.