It is! I was in school while we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of WW2 so I suppose our curriculum was maybe especially heavy on the "how could it happen? This easily. So remember to think for yourself."

I keep watching the world today and think back to school when we'd learn the song "Din tanke er fri" (your thought is free) and write papers on the importance of source vetting and watched The Wave (TV movie) and I feel like what I consider "education" might be considered "dangerous" by some today.

I sometimes worry that we've created a whole world where a lit of people are just trained to don't do "logic" because it might contradict the opinions you're told to hold, and it's easier to just hold whatever opinion you're told in order to avoid being ousted by what one considers one's "tribe".

And yeah, I am even talking about here. Like sorry, we should all just be on top of eachother where the first humans began humaning I guess.

Called it! Although, like... I always feel like it's a little weird to have a cutoff date like "nah my ancestors were okay and I am proud of them but the people doing the same now are bad". I yearn to hear someone say "MY ANCESTORS WERE ALSO WRONG AND I DON'T BELONG HERE" if they hold those views.

As long as it aligns with their view on the one single issue they think politics is supposed to be about (cough most commonly immigration cough) they're all "Yes they are doing it right over there".

Let's just say that as far as with people I know; the Venn diagram of "having an ability to see long term effects and generally grasping the big picture of situations" and "thinking this is good" are just two circles so far divided, one's on the moon. Tend to be single issue voters with blindspots.

That's... Not surprising because we got some people here that somehow think it's great. I just don't get it, to me dude's always come across as about as charismatic as the common cold, and not quite as smart. I guess I am culturally biased like... "trained" to see bullies as inherently weak...

I feel like there were some people voting for "this is obviously gonna make shit worse for you personally as well" which means there was some part of "being tricked" involved. Like "don't worry, this golden age you'll be a robber baron. Not [insert lyrics of 16 Tons]"

The Distance and I met at the wrong time (awkward 12 year old in a Grunge Only phase), so it wasn't until Short Skirt/Long Jacket I really got my eyes up. But oh, am I glad I did.

I feel like I must be going crazy or something. Like to me "freedom of speech" means you can criticise people in power without being scared of incarceration, execution, fines or something...
But apparently it means "I should be allowed say evil shit without anyone disliking it" to a lot of people?

As much as I hate that a person I despise have spoken about loving my favourite books, I feel like it is a reason to deeply worry about his reason comprehension.

"I called you because somehow my rent bill has disappeared from the register of outgoing payments and it's not because it's paid AND I NEED TO PAY THAT TO HAVE A HOME so... No matter how nice the person on the call is, the technical errors are still heavier factors in if I advice my friends.

I really need my bank to look inside and understand they have a lot of technical problems and when people blow up their phone lines that is why. No matter how pleasant the person people talked to are; the answer to "would you advice friends and colleagues to []?" At the survey at the end is never 10

I love this song so much, it introduced me to the band. And without this song I wouldn't have known Sheep Go To Heaven which I love even more.

I want to post Moya off of Farscape but also I can't be bothered finding her right now 😂😅

Tbh I feel like there are a lot if historical leaders that's been remembered as "great at their job" that has the "also kind of hated having that job" vibe. Especially the sycophants bit.

Marcus Aurelius because I find Meditations a calming read when anxiety does what my anxiety does best; make some inner stone age person think everything is three hungry saber-toothed felines in a trench coat.

I keep trying to think "some people got tricked. It's not their fault they got tricked."

But when they got tricked by a dude with the communication style of a grumpy child and another dude with the social media habits of a tween edgelord I just have a hard time getting HOW...

Hell, Norway can be pretty darn cool sometimes so may be comparable at times 😅

I have never felt more like a Bethany.

Doc: "How are you doing these days?"
Me, after looking at her for about five minutes in confusion because depression + anxiety + current state of all of everything = obvious answer: "Very grateful for meds."

HOW HAVE I LIVED MY ENTIRE LIFE WITHOUT LEARNING ABOUT TURTLE ANTS?

THEY ARE SO COOL!

It's a Tears for Fears kind of week.

Because MAN I WANNA 🎶SHOUT! SHOUT! LET IT ALL OUT!🎶

I naturally read it as alternative spelling "huh?" and had a second of "is a hœ phase a short term period of bad hearing?"

I have noticed. I like my fiction bizarre and my reality adhering to concepts like "logic" and adults in power not being the kind of person you worry might not be able to the cognitive demands of tying shoes and chewing gum at the same time.

I mean, can we at least have some... I don't know... Logic to the plots?

Because we're living in satire now.

I have given myself a "three a day" limit of scrolling past "Human Woman Aged Over A Few Decades! How Can That Be?" headlines and most days I don't get to it, but some days... I have to quit the internet for the day really effing early.