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How do we reconcile the fact that everyone around us sees critical things completely differently to us? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by OrionsMask@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I'm surrounded by people who care more about Charlie Kirk than about Gaza, sometimes it's hard not to believe that most people are drones or just horrendous people. I can't even watch a video my colleague sent me on AI because it's so western centric and anti-China and I can't get past that to have a conversation about the other stuff. It's so isolating and disconnecting.

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone around you has been indoctrinated with explicit and implicit capitalist and imperialist propaganda since age 0, with only very minor and localized challenges to that (only if they went to the right college with marxist profs or happened to stumble upon a unionized workspace). Of course you end up with people who are either willfully ignorant or evil, there is no other way to keep your sanity in such an environment. Be glad that you've been able to see through it and have a community of like-minded people.