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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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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Most people don't need to think about or question the system, and so they don't, they ignore the cracks in the system because thinking about them is stressful. They are also told by the media around them that they are a brave clever Free Thinker for blindly absorbing whatever status quo opinion their preferred talking heads want them to think.

I try not to push back too much on this whole thing, it won't work. You have to slowly but surely teach them critical thinking skills and media literacy, you have to pick away at the wall of nonsense people are surrounded with and encourage them to pick up a pickaxe and start chipping away themselves, it takes months, years even, to get someone to a point that you can not have to worry about them falling for every big obvious thing, you can't force someone to change their mind, but you can give them the tools needed to change it on their own. Unfortunately, some people would rather live in a blind comfortable status quo and will never question things, but as conditions worsen, these people will become rarer and rarer.