to repeat: you can’t hold someone for participating in a society where certain technologies have been integrated into products and infrastructure with virtually no meaningful way to opt out, at the same level of accountability as someone making the conscious choice to
Drawing discourse is funny because apparently it's an inborn talent that cannot be achieved by the average person no matter how hard they try but it's also not a serious skill and just something kids do for fun
What people continuously miss is that if you are not capable of expressing something yourself, then you actually do not have something to say. You just think you do.
It's also interesting how they get to decide what counts as an "intellectual" conversation in the first place. More often than not "intellectual" just means topics they're interested in or already knowledgeable about. They often mistake their interests for intelligence itself.
My general rule for feeling mentally well is understanding that the more I judge others negatively, the more I anticipate negative judgement from others. Practicing kindness and leniency and forgiveness has no guarantee of reciprocation, but it puts you in a better state of mind.