I know this is just a meme post but I was watching an interview with his wife and the sheer terminally online/disconnected from reality of it all was a bit disturbing to me. Like you are dumb-as-rocks enough to believe you are going to go over there with your family and be treated like Seagal or something? I wanted to schadenfreude but I couldn’t, the level of stupidity was actually offensive to me.
What I don’t get is, so much of what is online is designed to make you angry and scared because that captures the most engagement. Are people just comfortable feeling that way? It seems way more stressful than living a mostly offline life and enjoying conversations with real people. I don’t understand why people do it to themselves.
I think for older folks at least it has to do with the chemicals they were exposed to. I’ve met countless men in their 50s who really are just angry all the time and permanently on a hair trigger. Then they fondly talk about the good old days when trucks would gas their blocks with pesticides and they’d chase after them as kids. You also can’t discount the amount lead they were exposed to which is known to make people more aggressive.
Five years ago, I saw other passengers on a flight turn on the in-flight entertainment screen and immediately bee-line straight to Fox News. For the entire 4 hour flight. And not just one person either. They could have had their pick of all kinds of blockbuster movies and critically-acclaimed TV shows on there, but they preferred to just plug into the hivemind instead.
I can’t even imagine watching any news, propaganda or otherwise, for that long. It was completely unnerving to witness.
So, yes. People really are addicted to the rage bait. Probably more now than back then. And like an addiction it’s fucking their whole lives up, and getting out is not really a consideration.
People who complain about woke and social justice warriors feels like…they are social justice warriors and woke by having a social cause to be outraged for.
There’s quite a common trope both in fiction and in world history (in the sense of survivor-bias reported history) of the White man travelling to a foreign land and becoming more important and successful there than they ever were back home. Captain Cook being treated as a literal God in Hawai’i. John Blackthorne becoming Daimyo of Kanagawa. Sideshow Bob becoming mayor of an Italian town. So, it’s not unusual for privileged fucknuts to move to shithole countries thinking they’ll get the celebrity lifestyle.
I know this is just a meme post but I was watching an interview with his wife and the sheer terminally online/disconnected from reality of it all was a bit disturbing to me. Like you are dumb-as-rocks enough to believe you are going to go over there with your family and be treated like Seagal or something? I wanted to schadenfreude but I couldn’t, the level of stupidity was actually offensive to me.
What I don’t get is, so much of what is online is designed to make you angry and scared because that captures the most engagement. Are people just comfortable feeling that way? It seems way more stressful than living a mostly offline life and enjoying conversations with real people. I don’t understand why people do it to themselves.
I think for older folks at least it has to do with the chemicals they were exposed to. I’ve met countless men in their 50s who really are just angry all the time and permanently on a hair trigger. Then they fondly talk about the good old days when trucks would gas their blocks with pesticides and they’d chase after them as kids. You also can’t discount the amount lead they were exposed to which is known to make people more aggressive.
they only ever known to express anger.
Anger’s the only passion they get to experience
Five years ago, I saw other passengers on a flight turn on the in-flight entertainment screen and immediately bee-line straight to Fox News. For the entire 4 hour flight. And not just one person either. They could have had their pick of all kinds of blockbuster movies and critically-acclaimed TV shows on there, but they preferred to just plug into the hivemind instead.
I can’t even imagine watching any news, propaganda or otherwise, for that long. It was completely unnerving to witness.
So, yes. People really are addicted to the rage bait. Probably more now than back then. And like an addiction it’s fucking their whole lives up, and getting out is not really a consideration.
People who complain about woke and social justice warriors feels like…they are social justice warriors and woke by having a social cause to be outraged for.
There’s quite a common trope both in fiction and in world history (in the sense of survivor-bias reported history) of the White man travelling to a foreign land and becoming more important and successful there than they ever were back home. Captain Cook being treated as a literal God in Hawai’i. John Blackthorne becoming Daimyo of Kanagawa. Sideshow Bob becoming mayor of an Italian town. So, it’s not unusual for privileged fucknuts to move to shithole countries thinking they’ll get the celebrity lifestyle.
Someone they might consider wise once said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
dumb as those canandian farmers that moved to russia for the same reasons.