One thing I forgot to add is this: Why are the conservatives who write these articles always sad or outraged or dismayed or disappointed by some Terrible Thing - but never enraged or pissed off? I think it's an editorial thing, some edict handed down from on high that no author who writes for the website shall ever express anger at the Left's latest shenanigans, only a sort of handwringing worry appropriate to the prudish spinster aunt of legend who crossess herself and pray for divine intervention. If I wasn't a good Christian and all that.
Oh, and don't need to wake up. We're awake. We can see what's happening just fine. We just don't want to get involved because we have a mortgage to pay, or Tommy needs braces, or Caitlin has soccer practice and what difference would it make anyway?
That's the real question isn't it? And it's the same question that never gets answered in almost all of the Substack posts about the rampant corruption in our government.
Our elected "legislators" are so preoccupied with getting re-elected (and richer) that the people's business if far down the priorities list. We have 535 useless eaters whose function is to run a country sidetracked by their own ambitions. And yes, I mean the entire congress and senate.
They aren't doing the work of the people, they are enriching themselves, their friends and donors. Those that foot the bill are left empty handed with the illusion that voting is our power to throw the bums out.
I would literally make all social media illegal for the same reason that we don't allow the public to have nuclear weapons and meth. It's disastrously bad for the country.
Would people support that? No. My guess is that only a tiny percentage of the population would go along with it. So, as a starting point, you try to build consensus that there's a problem that needs to be solved. Then, you support anything that limits the damage that problem causes. Then, if there's enough support, you take big action.
In general, liberals understand this process very well, but conservatives have a tendency to want to fix everything in one fell swoop, right now and it almost never works that way. No with this, not with abortion, not with anything unless you're in a red state where Democrats have zero power.
This all sounds right to me. Humans are so flawed in their emotional disregualtion and staus pursuit. They want to be little Gods. Or they are so wounded phycoligically they cannot think critically.
All of this is correct, but there's one thing missing, the answer to this question:
WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO ABOUT IT?
I wrote the following some time ago. It still holds true.
https://iceage.substack.com/p/im-ice-age-and-im-a-recovering-conservaholic
One thing I forgot to add is this: Why are the conservatives who write these articles always sad or outraged or dismayed or disappointed by some Terrible Thing - but never enraged or pissed off? I think it's an editorial thing, some edict handed down from on high that no author who writes for the website shall ever express anger at the Left's latest shenanigans, only a sort of handwringing worry appropriate to the prudish spinster aunt of legend who crossess herself and pray for divine intervention. If I wasn't a good Christian and all that.
Oh, and don't need to wake up. We're awake. We can see what's happening just fine. We just don't want to get involved because we have a mortgage to pay, or Tommy needs braces, or Caitlin has soccer practice and what difference would it make anyway?
And there's this:
https://iceage.substack.com/p/easy-success-is-driving-us-all-mad
I think your article addresses these things, all rolled up into one.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO ABOUT IT?"
That's the real question isn't it? And it's the same question that never gets answered in almost all of the Substack posts about the rampant corruption in our government.
Our elected "legislators" are so preoccupied with getting re-elected (and richer) that the people's business if far down the priorities list. We have 535 useless eaters whose function is to run a country sidetracked by their own ambitions. And yes, I mean the entire congress and senate.
They aren't doing the work of the people, they are enriching themselves, their friends and donors. Those that foot the bill are left empty handed with the illusion that voting is our power to throw the bums out.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
I would literally make all social media illegal for the same reason that we don't allow the public to have nuclear weapons and meth. It's disastrously bad for the country.
Would people support that? No. My guess is that only a tiny percentage of the population would go along with it. So, as a starting point, you try to build consensus that there's a problem that needs to be solved. Then, you support anything that limits the damage that problem causes. Then, if there's enough support, you take big action.
In general, liberals understand this process very well, but conservatives have a tendency to want to fix everything in one fell swoop, right now and it almost never works that way. No with this, not with abortion, not with anything unless you're in a red state where Democrats have zero power.
Social media is arguably worse than nukes because nukes destroy physical structures. Social media destroys hope.
This all sounds right to me. Humans are so flawed in their emotional disregualtion and staus pursuit. They want to be little Gods. Or they are so wounded phycoligically they cannot think critically.