I don’t know if you live here or not. I’m trying to stay hopeful that this regime will fall apart sooner rather than later.
Don’t call me a prisoner of my own mind. Don’t insult my intelligence. It isn’t naive or dumb to hope that things can be better, or to go looking for them.
What OP is looking for is assurance that America isn’t an unredeemable bad guy. You know what I see? Someone rapidly realizing that their reality is propagandized nationalistic pride, and trying to claw it back, exactly the way I was ten years ago.
Of course there are good things about a place. But self-soothing with a constructed reality doesn’t change the fact that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, and that a pretty big chunk of the world’s issues are a direct result of our broken political system.
It’s okay to see the real world for what it is. Pretending it’s all gonna be fine makes the problem worse, not better. The sooner we can agree it needs to be fixed, the sooner it will get fixed. That gives me some hope. That eventually, enough people will see that it needs to change.
I don’t know if you live here or not. I’m trying to stay hopeful that this regime will fall apart sooner rather than later.
Don’t call me a prisoner of my own mind. Don’t insult my intelligence. It isn’t naive or dumb to hope that things can be better, or to go looking for them.
What OP is looking for is assurance that America isn’t an unredeemable bad guy. You know what I see? Someone rapidly realizing that their reality is propagandized nationalistic pride, and trying to claw it back, exactly the way I was ten years ago.
Of course there are good things about a place. But self-soothing with a constructed reality doesn’t change the fact that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, and that a pretty big chunk of the world’s issues are a direct result of our broken political system.
It’s okay to see the real world for what it is. Pretending it’s all gonna be fine makes the problem worse, not better. The sooner we can agree it needs to be fixed, the sooner it will get fixed. That gives me some hope. That eventually, enough people will see that it needs to change.